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Goodrich, J. Marc; Fitton, Lisa; Thayer, Lauren – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
Understanding factors that influence reading achievement among bilingual children is considerably more complex than it is for monolingual children. Research on dual language development indicates that bilingual children's oral language abilities are often distributed across languages in varied ways, due to heterogeneity of dual language exposure…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Bilingual Students, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Lisa Fitton; J. Marc Goodrich; Lauren Thayer; Amy Pratt; Rose Luna – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study explored approaches for measuring vocabulary among bilingual children with varying levels of proficiency in Spanish and English. Method: One hundred fifteen kindergarten and first-grade Spanish--English-speaking children completed measures of vocabulary and sentence repetition in Spanish and English. Scores were derived from…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Vocabulary, Language Tests, Spanish
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Lisa M. Domke; María A. Cerrato; Elizabeth H. Sanders; Michael Vo – Language and Education, 2025
Because word problems present mathematical information through a scenario, they are language-intensive and require mathematical and reading comprehension skills to solve them. In addition, they are linguistically complex, which makes them challenging for all learners, especially multilingual learners. Given the rising number of dual-language…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
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Doré R. LaForett; Ximena Franco-Jenkins; Adam Winsler; M. Taylor Eron; Kaitlyn Mumma; My V. H. Nguyen – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This study examined teachers' adherence to the language of instruction in dual language education (DLE) programs among teachers in 19 kindergarten through 3rd grade Spanish-English two-way DLE immersion classrooms (n = 5, 90/10 model; n = 14, 50/50 model). Teachers were observed toward the beginning and end of the school year to determine…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Pratt, Amy S.; Adams, Ashley M.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2022
We explore the classification accuracy of a parent and teacher report measure, the Inventory to Assess Language Knowledge (ITALK), to screen for developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual children. Participants were 120 Spanish-English bilingual children with typical development (TD) and 19 bilingual children with DLD, ranging in age from…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Screening Tests, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments
Berndt, Esther Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Oral language is foundational to literacy. Because their language is under construction, emergent bilingual students have unique needs related to literacy development regardless of the language of instruction. Knowledge teachers gain through formative assessment of student oral language can guide decisions about literacy instruction. The purpose…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Knowledge Level, Formative Evaluation, Literacy Education
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Kapantzoglou, Maria; Brown, Julie Esparza; Cycyk, Lauren M.; Fergadiotis, Gerasimos – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examined the frequency of code-switching by Spanish-English-speaking children as a function of language proficiency in each language and diagnosis (developmental language disorder [DLD] or typical language development [TLD]). Method: Sixty-two Spanish-English-speaking children, 5-7 years of age, participated in this study (24…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingual Students, Spanish, English
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Hyun, Jungwon; Heidt, Esther Bettney; Prasad, Gail – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2022
Language separation policies in two-way bilingual education (TWBE) reflect ideologies of double monolingualism (Heller, 1995) and ignore the sociolinguistic realities of bi/multilingual students (García & Lin, 2017). This case study investigates the design and implementation of collaborative multilingual identity text projects (Prasad, 2018)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Multilingualism, Spanish
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Keefer, Natalie; Lopez, Julia; Young, Jyhane; Haj-Broussard, Michelle – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
At the intersection of social studies and world language curricula are opportunities to explore students' prior learning with vocabulary-rich content designed to support language acquisition goals. "Funds of knowledge" is defined as socio-cultural, economic, and historical knowledge from home and community settings. The instructional…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Spanish Speaking, Prior Learning, Teaching Methods
Alissa Patricia Wolters – ProQuest LLC, 2023
We examined spelling errors patterns, cohesive ties, and syntax features in English and Spanish essays written by Spanish-English emergent bilinguals in Grades 1, 2, and 3 (N = 278; 51% female) enrolled in either English immersion or English-Spanish dual immersion programs. In Study 1, we addressed whether students made consistent spelling errors…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Frieson, Brittany L.; Scalise, Makenzi – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
Drawing on translanguaging and raciolinguistics frameworks in an ethnographic case study, this article contextualizes how young Black American children engage in rich literacy practices to validate their cultural and linguistic identities in an elementary, two-way immersion bilingual program. Findings demonstrated that despite teachers' perceived…
Descriptors: African American Children, African American Culture, Cultural Influences, Black Dialects
Ximena Franco-Jenkins; Doré R. LaForett; Adam Winsler; Diego Ordoñez Rojas – Grantee Submission, 2023
The present study examined parents' and teachers' perceptions of student learning in Spanish-English Dual Language Education (DLE) programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants included 72 parents of students from kindergarten to second grade and eight teachers in two schools in the southeastern U.S. Parents retrospectively reported…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Spanish, English
Nguyen, Tutrang; Hofkens, Tara; Pianta, Robert C.; Whittaker, Jessica V.; Vitiello, Virginia E.; Ruzek, Erik A. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Children's social and emotional experiences influence brain development and are therefore central to outcomes of behavior, learning, and health. The current study examined associations between children's cumulative educational assets in the early grades and end of first grade social-emotional outcomes for children from English- and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Social Emotional Learning, Well Being, Spanish Speaking
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Petersen, Douglas B.; Chanthongthip, Helen; Ukrainetz, Teresa A.; Spencer, Trina D.; Steeve, Roger W. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This study investigated the classification accuracy of a concentrated English narrative dynamic assessment (DA) for identifying language impairment (LI). Method: Forty-two Spanish-English bilingual kindergarten to third-grade children (10 LI and 32 with no LI) were administered two 25-min DA test-teach-test sessions. Pre- and posttest…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Pretests Posttests, Language Impairments
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Wood, Carla; Fitton, Lisa; Petscher, Yaacov; Rodriguez, Estrella; Sunderman, Gretchen; Lim, Taehyeong – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effect of an intensive vocabulary intervention embedded in e-books on the vocabulary skills of young Spanish-English speaking English learners (ELs) from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds. Method: Children (N = 288) in kindergarten and 1st grade were randomly assigned to treatment and read-only…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Publishing, Vocabulary Development, Bilingual Students
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