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Beating the Odds: A Longitudinal Investigation of Low-Income Dual-Language and Monolingual Children's English Language and Literacy Performance
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Han, Myae; Vukelich, Carol; Buell, Martha; Meacham, Sohyun – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: The current study reports on the results of a longitudinal investigation of the language and early literacy development of a sample of dual-language learners (DLLs) and monolingual English speakers from low-income families who received an Early Reading First intervention during their Head Start preschool year. A total of 62…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Economically Disadvantaged, Bilingualism, Monolingualism
Phoneme Awareness, Vocabulary and Word Decoding in Monolingual and Bilingual Dutch Children
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Janssen, Marije; Bosman, Anna M. T.; Leseman, Paul P. M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
The aim of this study was to investigate whether bilingually raised children in the Netherlands, who receive literacy instruction in their second language only, show an advantage on Dutch phoneme-awareness tasks compared with monolingual Dutch-speaking children. Language performance of a group of 47 immigrant first-grade children with various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Phonemic Awareness, Monolingualism