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Direct linkButvilofsky, Sandra A.; Escamilla, Kathy; Gumina, Deena; Silva Diaz, Elizabeth – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
Emerging bilingual learners' biliteracy abilities are often underestimated when monolingual reading assessments, such as the DIBELS, are used to identify students as having difficulties in learning or to guide literacy instruction. The authors propose a holistic form of biliterate assessment that uses writing as a means to understand what emerging…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Monolingualism, Bilingual Students, Holistic Approach
Oh, Min Hyun; Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Despite the unprecedented growth of Spanish-English dual language learners (DLLs) in new destination states--where DLLs have not been historically served--empirical understanding of their language and literacy skills is scant. Drawing on scientific understandings of bilingual language acquisition, we compare monolingually scored and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language), Grade 2
Woolpert, Darin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Dual-language learner (DLL) children typically learn to write while still learning English, with vocabulary appearing to be a particularly vulnerable domain. This study investigates how a reduced English lexicon impacts English writing in DLL children. Participants were 100 Spanish-speaking DLLs and 100 of their monolingual classmates in first…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Education
Palmer, Deborah K. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2009
Code-switching is a natural part of being bilingual. Yet two-way immersion programs are known to insist upon separation of languages, discouraging both teachers and students from drawing on both linguistic codes at once. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of symbolic power, I examine one second-grade classroom in which the teacher instituted a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Code Switching (Language), Monolingualism, Power Structure
Uchikoshi, Yuuko; Maniates, Helen – Bilingual Research Journal, 2010
When literacy instruction is integrated and contextualized in a child's background knowledge and daily experiences, learning is increased. This mixed-methods study describes effective bilingual instruction in second-grade classrooms in the United States where teachers utilize students' linguistic capital and foster home-school connections, two…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Reading Comprehension, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education
Kandel, Sonia; Valdois, Sylviane – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
This study used a copying task to examine spelling acquisition in French and Spanish from a perception and action perspective. Experiment 1 compared French and Spanish-speaking monolingual children's performance. Experiment 2 analysed the behaviour of bilingual children when copying words in French and Spanish. Gaze lift analysis showed that in…
Descriptors: French, Spanish Speaking, Visual Perception, Monolingualism
