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Download full textAthanasou, James A.; Lamprianou, Iasonas – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2004
This paper examines reading achievement when the maternal/paternal language has become a de facto second language. The performance of a cohort of Greek-Australian high school students (N = 270) on a diagnostic Greek reading test was significantly below that of pupils in second to fourth grades in Greece. The mean item difficulty for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
deLemos, Marion M. – 1975
The aim of this study was to obtain objective information on the school achievement of non-English speaking migrant children randomly drawn from three primary grade levels, and to identify some of the factors, such as home background, that are related to their achievement in school. Information on home background was collected by means of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Cultural Background
