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Goodrich, J. Marc; Thayer, Lauren; Leiva, Sergio – Educational Researcher, 2021
This study represents an extension of the findings of Kieffer and Thompson (2018) and evaluates potential correlates of state- and district-level achievement gaps in reading and mathematics between monolingual and multilingual students. Using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, this study reported that there were substantial…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 4
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Heppt, Birgit; Haag, Nicole; Böhme, Katrin; Stanat, Petra – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
Academic language is frequently assumed to be especially challenging for students from families of low socioeconomic status (SES) and even more so for language-minority students. Due to their often especially disadvantaged position regarding socioeconomic background and exposure to the language of instruction, language minority students are…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Minorities, Minority Group Students, Low Income Groups
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Berube, Daniel; Marinova-Todd, Stefka H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
The relationship between first language (L1) typology, defined as the classification of languages according to their structural characteristics (e.g. phonological systems and writing systems), and the development of second (L2) and third (L3) language skills and literacy proficiency in multilingual children was investigated in this study. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Multilingualism, Language Classification, Grade 4