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Direct linkSparrow, Wendy; Schepers, Ofelia Castro; Escamilla, Kathy – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This paper is the first to examine the longitudinal results of six years of implementation of Literacy Squared, a biliteracy model for Spanish/English speaking emerging bilingual students. This model includes paired literacy instruction with grade-specific time allocations for Spanish literacy and literacy-based ELD. Furthermore, cross-language…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Longitudinal Studies, Literacy Education
Escamilla, Kathy; Butvilofsky, Sandra; Hopewell, Susan – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
Recent analyses of wide-scale writing assessment outcomes indicate that English writing achievement for fourth- and fifth-grade emerging bilingual learners continues to be an area of great concern. Utilizing the theory of holistic bilingualism and a mixed methods design, this study examines the writing skills of 44 emerging bilingual fourth and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hopewell, Susan; Escamilla, Kathy – Journal of Literacy Research, 2014
Data systems that use monolingual language frameworks to understand the reading achievement of third-grade students provide inadequate information about emerging bilingual (EB) learners. The authors of this research study apply two competing ideologies (parallel monolingualism and holistic bilingualism) to interpret one set of data. Their findings…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement
Download full textStansfield, Charles W. – 1979
As bilingual education emerges after the 1974 Lau decision, the additional need to test the language proficiency of bilingual education teachers is recognized. Examination of possible means of validating language proficiency of bilingual education teacher certification candidates shows several alternatives, some desirable and some not. A review of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Comparative Analysis, Court Litigation
Mahon, Elizabeth A. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2006
The purpose of this study was to understand relationships between English proficiency and academic performance for a group of English language learners (ELLs) from 4 elementary schools. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to examine scores from the Language Assessment Scales, the Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey, and the Colorado…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 5, English (Second Language), Limited English Speaking
