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Gumina, Deena – Bilingual Research Journal, 2022
This study examines how three bilingual education teachers engaged with a transitional bilingual policy while balancing the demands of monolingual high-stakes assessments in ways that contributed to advocacy on behalf of their bilingual learners. The consequences of high-stakes accountability can be exacerbated in bilingual settings, because in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Monolingualism, Bilingual Students
Butler, Yuko Goto – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This study examines young English readers' ability to infer word meanings in context and to use metacognitive knowledge for constructing word meanings in relation to their reading performance. The participants were 61 fourth-grade students in the United States, comprising 24 monolingual English-speaking (ME) students and 37…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
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
Silverman, Rebecca D.; Proctor, C. Patrick; Harring, Jeffrey R.; Hartranft, Anna M.; Doyle, Brie; Zelinke, Sarah B. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The present study investigated language skills and reading comprehension with English monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual children in grades 2-5. Of the 377 children in the sample, 207 were English monolingual and 170 were Spanish-English bilingual. Data were collected within a cohort-sequential design for two academic years in the fall and…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Reading Comprehension, Monolingualism, Bilingual Education
Menke, Mandy R. – Hispania, 2015
Language immersion students' lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic competencies are well documented, yet their phonological skill has remained relatively unexplored. This study investigates the Spanish vowel productions of a cross-sectional sample of 35 one-way Spanish immersion students. Learner productions were analyzed acoustically and compared to…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Vowels, Elementary School Students, Spanish
Proctor, C. Patrick; Dalton, Bridget; Uccelli, Paola; Biancarosa, Gina; Mo, Elaine; Snow, Catherine; Neugebauer, Sabina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
This quasi-experimental study investigated the effects of an Internet-delivered universally designed depth of vocabulary intervention that targeted both English-speaking and Spanish-English-speaking students. Two hundred forty students, 49% of whom were Spanish-English bilinguals, participated in the 16-week intervention. Intervention students…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies
Lesaux, Nonie K.; Crosson, Amy C.; Kieffer, Michael J.; Pierce, Margaret – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2010
English reading comprehension skill development was examined in a group of 87 native Spanish-speakers developing English literacy skills, followed from fourth through fifth grade. Specifically, the effects of Spanish (L1) and English (L2) oral language and word reading skills on reading comprehension were investigated. The participants showed…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Oral Language
Davin, Kristin; Troyan, Francis J.; Donato, Richard; Hellman, Ashley – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This article reports on the implementation of the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in an Early Foreign Language Learning program. The goal of this research was to examine the performance of grade 4 and 5 students of Spanish on the IPA. Performance across the three communicative tasks is described and modifications to IPA procedures based on…
Descriptors: FLES, Second Language Programs, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests