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Wortham, Sue Clark – 1976
A questionnaire was administered to 50 first-grade teachers who reported strategies used in teaching reading to 1,145 Mexican-American, Black, and Anglo children in three school districts in Texas. Seven null hypotheses were tested. It was concluded that (1) reading instruction is delayed with Mexican-American children; (2) on the average, 68% of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, English
Howell, Maryon – 1973
Designed to test the effectiveness of reading as a factor in changing attitude, this study was based on three hypotheses: reading taught in the normal classroom could be the media through which positive attitudes toward Spanish Americans are fostered; there would be no significant difference between the scores of boys and girls and the children's…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 5, Hispanic American Literature
Smith, Delia Gimenez-Cuervo – 1976
This study investigated the effect on learning of the interspersing of questions with sections of written discourse. A 5,200-word passage was divided into seven sections, from each of which several completion questions were derived. A pair of questions was inserted before, after, or both before and after the section. These questions also formed an…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Springer, Judith Ann – 1975
The focus of this study is on the possible effects of phonological interference on the reading achievement of Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican first graders. Specifically, the study explored the relationship between standard English auditory discrimination and first-grade reading achievement. Subjects for the study were 32 female and 20 male students…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Arlington, VA. – 1980
The following award-winning dissertations in bilingual education are included here: (1) "The 1974 Bilingual Education Amendments: Revolution, Reaction, or Reform" by Susan Gilbert Schneider; (2) "(Memory Organization, Bilingualism, and Interlingual Interference: A Comparative Analysis of the Semantic Distance and Semantic Judgment…
Descriptors: American Indians, Auditory Discrimination, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
O'Neill, Stephen P. – 1978
The questions investigated in this study concern the adequacy of the current comprehensive English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, the need for a separate but complementary reading program, the relative merits of a classroom-based or an independent reading laboratory method, and the relationship between native language reading proficiency and…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)
