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Direct linkSalameh-Matar, Abeer; Basal, Nasir; Weintraub, Naomi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The knowledge relating to the effect of learning a second language (L2) on the mother tongue (L1) is relatively limited. Most studies focused on linguistic and reading skills, but we did not find studies relating to handwriting performance. Our study focused on the transfer effect of handwriting performance from Hebrew L2 to Arabic L1. The sample…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Skills, Semitic Languages, Bilingual Students
Molina, Huberto; And Others – 1992
This paper examines the schooling achievement of children from bilingual homes and compares them to comparable samples of children from monolingual homes. Extensive follow-up data were gathered in 1985 on a sample of approximately 4,000 high school seniors who entered kindergarten in 1973 as part of a Kindergarten Reading Follow-up (KRF) program.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedAgrawal, Khazan C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article discusses a battery of tests, the "Short Tests of Linguistic Skills," which was developed by the Chicago Board of Education to help teachers determine the language dominance of Spanish bilingual children between the ages of 8 and 13. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary School Students
Download full textPadilla, Amado M.; And Others – 1988
Seventy-one subjects (22 English monolinguals, 23 Spanish monolinguals, and one bilingual group comprised of 19 Spanish-dominant and 7 English-dominant bilinguals) were assessed by means of the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery and the Woodcock-Johnson Language Proficiency Battery at the beginning of kindergarten and first grade. These…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), English
Commins, Nancy L.; Miramontes, Ofelia B. – 1987
A study investigated the notion that bilingual students' low academic achievement may be due to semilingualism (having limited language skills) in each of the two languages, and the cognitive deficits that presumably result. The subjects were two boys and two girls from the fifth and sixth grades with low proficiency in either English or Spanish.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Case Studies
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1982
Characteristics and reading performance of students who have a dominant language other than English are examined and compared with those of English-dominant students, based on the results 1979-1980 National Assessment of Educational Progress (reading and literature). Responses were obtained from 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds, and 17-year-olds. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Educational Background, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Garganta, Soledad; Ramirez, Inez – 1978
This report discusses the importance of bilingual reading instruction for limited English speaking ability (LESA) students, and careful testing of their language dominance and reading levels. Bilingual students, and English- and Spanish-dominant students from the Fabens Independent School District, Grades K-13, were tested for the data reported…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education
