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Schwartz, Mila; Wee Koh, Poh; Xi Chen, Becky; Sinke, Mark; Geva, Esther – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
Educators and researchers increasingly recognise the impact of language policies on bilingual education. The present study examined the similarities and differences in how the teachers and principals in two different contexts, a Mandarin-English bilingual programme in a Canadian kindergarten and elementary school and a Russian-Hebrew bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teacher Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese, Semitic Languages
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Prior, Anat; Goldina, Anna; Shany, Michal; Geva, Esther; Katzir, Tami – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The current study examined the predictive roles of L2 vocabulary knowledge and L2 word reading skills in explaining individual differences in lexical inferencing in the L2. Participants were 53 Israeli high school students who emigrated from the former Soviet Union, and spoke Russian as an L1 and Hebrew as an L2. L2 vocabulary knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Russian, Reading Comprehension