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Alejandro Granados Vargas; Elizabeth D. Peña; Lisa M. Bedore – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Aims: We investigate the relationship between narrative macrostructure, current language exposure, and microstructure in second-grade Spanish-English bilingual children in the United States. Macrostructure knowledge has been claimed to be shared across languages in multilingual individuals. We examine the role of current language exposure and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 2, English, Spanish
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Cruz de Quiros, Ana M.; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Tong, Fuhui; Irby, Beverly J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of structured story reading intervention, "S"tory re"T"elling and higher order thinking for "E"nglish "L"anguage and "L"iteracy "A"cquisition (STELLA), delivered to 38 Hispanic English language learners (ELL) placed in an enhanced transitional bilingual programme over 2 years from…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, English
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Martinez-Roldan, Carmen; Sayer, Peter – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2006
This study examines the biliteracy development of a group of bilingual Latino third graders in an elementary school in the south-west USA. It focuses on the role of language in children's reading comprehension of narrative texts in Spanish and English in a school context. The authors frame their analysis within the "Continua of Biliteracy" model…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Grade 3, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning