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Johnson, Ursula Y.; Martinez-Cantu, Veronica; Jacobson, Arminta L.; Weir, Carla-Marie – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: This study investigated the relationship of the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program to mothers' involvement in education at home and school, student school readiness in kindergarten, and student academic outcomes at 3rd grade. HIPPY serves a mostly minority, low-income family population and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Tests, School Readiness, Kindergarten
Baker, Doris Luft; Park, Yonghan; Baker, Scott K.; Basaraba, Deni Lee; Kame'enui, Edward J.; Beck, Carrie Thomas – Journal of School Psychology, 2012
This longitudinal study examined the effects of a paired bilingual program and an English-only reading program on English reading outcomes for Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) in first, second, and third grades. Participants were 214 ELs enrolled in first grade in 12 high-poverty, low-achieving schools at the beginning of the study. Results…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, English (Second Language), Reading Difficulties, Second Language Learning
Robinson, Joseph P. – Educational Researcher, 2010
Using a nationally representative sample of kindergarteners and first graders, this study asks if native-language test translations help English language learners (ELLs) demonstrate their mathematics skills. ELLs frequently encounter testing hurdles because they are not proficient in English, the predominant language of assessments. Low scores on…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Second Language Learning, Mathematics Skills, Grade 1
American Institutes for Research, 2016
California's Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010 established transitional kindergarten (TK), the first year of a two-year kindergarten program for students affected by the change in the birthdate cutoff for entry into kindergarten from December 2 to September 1. This fifth short report in a series highlighting findings from the Study of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
Ballinger, Susan; Lyster, Roy – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This study examines the Spanish use of students and teachers at a US two-way immersion school. Students and teachers from Grades 1, 3, and 8 (5-6-year-olds, 7-8-years-olds, and 12-13-year-olds, respectively) were observed and interviewed, and students completed questionnaires to determine what factors influenced their language of choice and their…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Oral Language, Language of Instruction, Questionnaires
York, Mary J.; Foorman, Barbara R.; Santi, Kristi L.; Francis, David J. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2011
We examined student-, classroom-, and school-level effects in predicting second-grade Spanish-speaking children's oral reading fluency in Spanish. Teachers in 67 randomly selected urban schools administered the Tejas LEE to 1,537 first- and second-grade students. Oral reading fluency was measured in the passages students read for comprehension.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Bilingual Students, Mentors, Reading Fluency
Genishi, Celia; Dyson, Anne Haas – Teachers College Press, 2009
In their new collaboration, Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson celebrate the genius of young children as they learn language and literacy in our diverse times. Despite burgeoning sociocultural diversity, many early childhood classrooms (pre-K to grade 2) offer a one-size-fits-all curriculum in which learning is too often assessed by standardized…
Descriptors: Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Literacy
Russakoff, Dale – Foundation for Child Development, 2011
In 1974, the United States Supreme Court ruled in "Lau v. Nichols" that 1,800 Chinese-speaking children in the San Francisco public schools were entitled to English-language instruction or other support to help them understand what was happening in their classrooms. Thirty-six years later, state and local responsibilities to public…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, English (Second Language), Speech Communication
Derek Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the sustained effects of Reading Recovery on the reading achievement of native Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL) who received the one-to-one intervention while in the first grade. All native Spanish-speaking ELL students who received the Reading Recovery intervention during the three academic years from the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, English (Second Language)
Azuara, Patricia; Reyes, Iliana – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
In Mexico almost ten million people speak an indigenous language. Recognizing the pluralistic nature of the nation, the Mexican Constitution mandates bilingual-intercultural education; in reality, however, the school system typically imposes the Spanish language and dominant culture on indigenous children. For these children their academic success…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Indigenous Populations, Written Language, Maya (People)
Petersen, Douglas B. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the validity of measures that were hypothesized to account for significant variance in English reading ability. During kindergarten, 63 bilingual Hispanic children completed letter identification, English and Spanish phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and sentence repetition static assessment tasks. They also…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Hispanic American Students, Reading Difficulties, Kindergarten
Gerena, Linda – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2010
The purpose of this study was to assess students' attitudes toward several aspects of biliteracy within the context of a dual immersion program. Attitudes toward perceived competencies in reading in two languages, along with the social and personal values of literacy in each language (English and Spanish), and the personal and social value of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Immersion Programs, Social Values, Literacy
Alanis, Iliana – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2011
Early education programs in the United States are experiencing an increase in the number of English learners and, consequently, an increase in dual-language programs that best serve the needs of these children. Dual-language programs enable children to communicate orally and in written forms in both their native languages and in English. This…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Skills
Branum-Martin, Lee; Mehta, Paras D.; Francis, David J.; Foorman, Barbara R.; Cirino, Paul T.; Miller, Jon F.; Iglesias, Aquiles – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
The current study evaluated the relation between Spanish and English vocabulary. Whereas previously reported correlations have revealed strong differences among types of vocabulary measures used and the ages of the students tested, no prior study had used a multilevel model to control for classroom-level differences. The current study used…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Vocabulary, English (Second Language), Spanish
Reading, Suzanne – Bilingual Research Journal, 2008
This study examined the English literacy skills of children in an immersion school, some of whom were enrolled in a French program and some in a Spanish program. The English literacy skills of the children enrolled in the Spanish program were consistently better than the English literacy skills of the children enrolled in the French program. In…
Descriptors: Literacy, Grade 1, French, English