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The Identification and Prevalence of Dyslexia among English Learners
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Karol Ann Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although changes in the identification of dyslexia have shifted in recent years, the rate of identification of dyslexia for English Learners (ELs) continues to lag behind that of monolinguals. Using a large sample of student data reported in the Public Education Information Management system (PEIMS) across two school years (2013-14 and 2019-20;…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Disability Identification, English Language Learners, Kindergarten
Neoliberal Multilingualism and "Humanitarian Connections": Discourses around Parents' Experiences with a Mandarin Chinese Immersion School
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Zheng, Bingjie – Language and Education, 2021
Few studies have investigated the discourses and ideologies around parents' enrollment decisions in Chinese-English immersion contexts, and how these discourses and ideologies affect their involvement with their children' bi/multilingual development. Conducted in a K-5 50/50 one-way Mandarin immersion school, this paper focuses on ethnographic…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Immersion Programs
The Importance of Phonological Awareness for the Development of Early English Reading Skills among Bilingual Singaporean Kindergartners
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Dixon, L. Quentin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
To examine the relationship between phonological awareness (PA) and English word-level reading among a multilingual sample, a random sample of 297 Singaporean kindergartners, stratified by ethnicity (169 Chinese, 65 Malay, and 63 Indian), were tested on their PA, receptive vocabulary, and word-level reading skills. Singaporean kindergartners are…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Multilingualism, Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism