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Houston Independent School District, 2016
There are approximately 65,000 students in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) labeled as "English language learners" (ELLs). Many of these students have the additional obstacle of being recent immigrants who have been in the United States for three years or less. In recent years, the number of immigrant ELLs in the district…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English Language Learners, Program Evaluation, Second Language Instruction
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Schreffler, Sandra B. – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1994
A study identified second-person singular pronoun usage among Salvadoran speakers living in Houston, Texas, to see what changes, if any, have been caused by contact with other Spanish speakers with different speech patterns. Although the results confirm some linguistic behavior observed by others, some unexpected facts and diverging trends were…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage