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Hansen, Laurie E.; Collins, Penelope – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
This study investigated children's access to books, narrow independent reading volume, and growth in vocabulary knowledge and comprehension. Two hundred-twenty English language learners and native-English speaking children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds were given measures of vocabulary and literacy in the fall and spring of fourth grade.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Independent Reading, Books, Vocabulary
Trepper, Terry Steven – 1975
Fifty poverty-level Mexican American bilingual children in first and fourth grade were tested for verbal facility in both English and Spanish to determine which language was dominant at the initial grade level and an advanced grade level. An East Los Angeles almost all of its students lived in the same Federal Housing project, thus ensuring low…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, English, Grade 1