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Reading Anxiety, Engagement, and Achievement: A Comparison of Emergent Bilinguals and English Monolinguals in the Elementary Grades
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Taboada Barber, Ana; Klauda, Susan Lutz; Wang, Weimeng – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Socioemotional constructs have been receiving increased attention as contributors to individuals' literacy development. However, in comparison with positive socioemotional constructs, negative socioemotional constructs have been understudied with respect to their role in reading achievement in both emergent bilinguals (EBs) and English…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Reading, Reading Achievement, English Language Learners
Teaching Bilingual Learners: Effects of a Language-Based Reading Intervention on Academic Language and Reading Comprehension in Grades 4 and 5
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Proctor, C. Patrick; Silverman, Rebecca D.; Harring, Jeffrey R.; Jones, Renata Love; Hartranft, Anna M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
Students are expected to comprehend and produce increasingly complex texts in upper elementary school, and academic language and literacy skills are considered critical to meeting these expectations. Notions of academic language are also controversial and require careful deliberation when applied to traditionally minoritized populations, including…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Reading Instruction, Academic Language
Academic Language as a Predictor Of Reading Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Readers: Evidence from Chilean Early Adolescents
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Meneses, Alejandra; Uccelli, Paola; Santelices, María Verónica; Ruiz, Marcela; Acevedo, Daniela; Figueroa, Javiera – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
Although literacy achievement has improved in Chile, adolescents' underperformance in reading comprehension is still a serious concern. In English, core academic-language skills (CALS) have been found to significantly predict reading comprehension, even controlling for academic vocabulary knowledge. CALS are high-utility language skills that…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Academic Discourse, Reading Comprehension
Teachers' Instruction and Students' Vocabulary and Comprehension: An Exploratory Study with English Monolingual and Spanish-English Bilingual Students in Grades 3-5
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Silverman, Rebecca D.; Proctor, C. Patrick; Harring, Jeffrey R.; Doyle, Brie; Mitchell, Marisa A.; Meyer, Anna G. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
The primary aim of this study was to explore the relationship between teachers' instruction and students' vocabulary and comprehension in grades 3-5. The secondary aim of this study was to investigate whether this relationship differed for English monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual students. To meet these aims, we observed and…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, English, Bilingual Students, Vocabulary