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Nirmla Griarte Flores; Elsie N. Solis; Clara Amador-Lankster; Isabel Badilla Zamora; Ana María Hernández Segura; Sylvia Segura Esquivel; Gabriela Solís Sánchez; Margarita Urdaneta Benavides – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This transnational comparative study between Costa Rica and the United States provides an in-depth understanding of the similarities and differences of the early literacy practices of educators in the Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten classroom settings. Drawing upon Costa Rica's curricular approach to Early Childhood Education, based upon the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education
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Begeny, John C.; Yeager, Abigail; Martinez, Rebecca S. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2012
This study compared children's Spanish reading performance across 2 reading intervention conditions: small group versus individual (teacher-student). Six second-grade Costa Rican students with low Spanish reading ability participated in the study. An alternating-treatments design was used to compare the relative effectiveness of the 2…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Reading Improvement, Program Effectiveness
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Brantmeier, Cindy – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2006
Bernhardt (2003) claims that half of the variance in second language (L2) reading is accounted for by first language literacy (20%) and second language knowledge (30%), and that one of the central goals of current L2 reading research should be to investigate the 50% of variance that remains unexplained. Part of this variance takes consists of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Research, Gender Differences, Test Format