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Baxter, G. P.; Ahmed, S.; Sikali, E.; Waits, T.; Sloan, M.; Salvucci, S. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The Nation's Report Card[TM] informs the public about the academic achievement of elementary and secondary students in the United States and its jurisdictions, including Puerto Rico. In 2003, a trial NAEP mathematics assessment was administered in Spanish to public school students at grades 4 and 8 in Puerto Rico. Based on preliminary analyses of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 8
Alberta Education, 2008
This document is designed to provide assessment materials for specific Grade 4 outcomes in the Spanish Language and Culture Nine-year Program, Grades 4-5-6. The assessment materials are designed for the beginner level in the context of teaching for communicative competence. Grade 4 learning outcomes from the Spanish Language and Culture Nine-year…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Grades (Scholastic), Formative Evaluation
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Crosson, Amy C.; Lesaux, Nonie K.; Martiniello, Maria – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
This study explores factors influencing the degree to which language minority (LM) children from Spanish-dominant homes understand how connectives, such as "in contrast" and "because", signal relationships between text propositions. Standardized tasks of vocabulary, listening comprehension, word reading, and a researcher-designed text cohesion…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Semantics
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Proctor, C. Patrick; Dalton, Bridget; Grisham, Dana L. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2007
As interest and concern rise in U.S. educational circles around the reading achievement of English language learners (ELLs) and struggling readers, researchers and practitioners alike are calling for the increased use of technology as a means to decrease achievement gaps in reading (Jimenez, 2003; Strangman & Dalton, 2005). In this article, we…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication, Reading Achievement, Second Language Learning
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Escamilla, Kathy – Teachers College Record, 2006
Language differences in the United States are largely viewed as problems that schools must remedy. This paradigm has created the pervasive belief that Spanish is a root cause of underachievement for Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs). This article examines teacher beliefs systems with regard to the above paradigm. It also examines…
Descriptors: Literacy, Spanish Speaking, Bilingualism, Underachievement
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Baxter, G. P.; Ahmed, S.; Sikali, E.; Waits, T.; Sloan, M.; Salvucci, S. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
In 2003, a trial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessment was administered in Spanish to public school students at grades 4 and 8 in Puerto Rico. Based on preliminary analyses of the 2003 data, changes were made in administration and translation procedures for the 2005 NAEP administration in Puerto Rico. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Peer Tutoring and Response Groups" aims to improve the language and achievement of English language learners by pairing or grouping students to work on a task. The students may be grouped by age or ability (English-only, bilingual, or limited English proficient) or the groups may be mixed. Both peer tutoring pairs and peer response…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Second Language Learning
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Proctor, C. Patrick; August, Diane; Carlo, Maria S.; Snow, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
This study explored a holistic model of English reading comprehension among a sample of 135 Spanish-English bilingual Latina and Latino 4th-grade students This model took into account Spanish language reading skills and language of initial literacy instruction. Controlling for language of instruction, English decoding skill, and English oral…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language of Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Oral Language
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Dominguez De Ramirez, Romilia; Shapiro, Edward S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
This study examined whether oral reading fluency in a child's first language (Spanish) as assessed by Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) was related to oral reading fluency in a second language (English) and whether Spanish oral reading fluency probes administered in the fall were predictive of English oral reading fluency outcomes for spring of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Curriculum Based Assessment, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education
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Lopez, Vera – School Community Journal, 2007
The present exploratory study examined the involvement of 77 Mexican-origin fathers in their school-age (grades 4-6) child's education. Fathers were classified into one of three groups based on their linguistic acculturation status. The three groups were predominantly English-speakers (n = 25), English/Spanish-speakers (n = 27), and predominantly…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, School Activities, Linguistics, School Involvement
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Hofstetter, Carolyn Huie – Bilingual Research Journal, 2004
This study examined the effectiveness of a transitional Spanish-English bilingual program, Academic Language Acquisition (ALA), in enhancing K-5 students' English-language proficiency, as well as their English performance in academic subject areas, in comparison with the Structured English Immersion (SEI) process. An existing reading program,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Scoring, Reading Programs, English (Second Language)
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Abella, Rodolfo; Urrutia, Joanne; Shneyderman, Aleksandr – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
Approximately 1,700 English language learners (ELLs) and former ELL students, in Grades 4 and 10, were tested using both an English-language (Stanford Achievement Test, 9th ed.) and a Spanish-language (Aprenda, 2nd ed.) achievement test. Their performances on the two tests were contrasted. The results showed that ELL students, for the most part,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Scores, Test Validity, Test Results
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Proctor, C. Patrick; Carlo, Maria; August, Diane; Snow, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
A structural equation model of second language (L2; English) reading comprehension was tested on a sample of 135 Spanish-speaking 4th-grade English-language learners (ELLs). The model included 2 levels: decoding and oral language. English decoding measures included alphabetic knowledge and fluency. English oral language measures included…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking, Oral Language
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Langdon, Henriette W. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2002
This article focuses on factors that impact identification of and services for English-language learners (ELLs) with suspected language-learning disabilities. These factors include (a) home and school environments, (b) the school's philosophy, (c) instructional strategies, and (d) other contextual variables that affect language use. In addition,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning
McElroy, Edward J. – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
The student population is changing, and teachers need new tools to help their English language learner (ELL) students. ELL students are learning to read, write, and speak English at the same time as they study history, science, math, and all the other subjects taught in our schools. This article describes one tool, the Colorin Colorado website,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), History, Science Education
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