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Jang, Eunice Eunhee; Dunlop, Maggie; Wagner, Maryam; Kim, Youn-Hee; Gu, Zhimei – Language Learning, 2013
The study examined differences in reading achievement and mastery skill development among Grade-6 students with different language background profiles, using cognitive diagnosis modeling applied to large-scale provincial reading test performance data. Our analyses revealed that students residing in various home language environments show different…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Achievement, Immigrants, Elementary School Students
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Schmid, Monika S.; Fagersten, Kristy Beers – Language Learning, 2010
Based on an analysis of the speech of long-term emigres of German and Dutch origin, the present investigation discusses to what extent hesitation patterns in language attrition may be the result of the creation of an interlanguage system, on the one hand, or of language-internal attrition patterns on the other. We compare speech samples elicited…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Language Skill Attrition, Language Patterns, Investigations