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Christine M. Leider; C. Patrick Proctor; Rebecca D. Silverman – Grantee Submission, 2014
The goal of this study was to examine written translation as a means to: a) build on the theoretical notion that a bilingual individual's languages are shared; b) operationalize biliterate ability; and c) propose a new method of assessment for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Drawing from the fields of cognitive psychology and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Translation, Written Language, Spanish
C. Patrick Proctor; Jeffrey R. Harring; Rebecca D. Silverman – Grantee Submission, 2014
In this correlational study, we analyzed data from 71 Spanish-English biliterate students in grades 3 (n=21), 4 (n=23), and 5 (n=27) with the goal of investigating the applicability of the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 1990) in English and in Spanish for this population. The simple view posits that decoding…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills, Decoding (Reading)