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Rezzonico, Stefano; Goldberg, Ahuva; Mak, Katy Ka-Yan; Yap, Stephanie; Milburn, Trelani; Belletti, Adriana; Girolametto, Luigi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare narratives generated by 4-year-old and 5-year-old children who were bilingual in English and Cantonese. Method: The sample included 47 children (23 who were 4 years old and 24 who were 5 years old) living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, who spoke both Cantonese and English. The participants spoke and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, English, Sino Tibetan Languages, Story Telling
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Soltero-Gonzalez, Lucinda A.; Butvilofsky, Sandra Adriana – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This longitudinal qualitative study examined the progression in the levels of writing conceptualizations in Spanish and English of 20 simultaneous bilingual children from PreK-K. Using a constructivist framework and a holistic bilingual perspective, we examined children's understandings about writing in their two languages as demonstrated in their…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Spanish, English, Writing (Composition)
Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2015
This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's spring 2015 English language learners' early reading performance in kindergarten through grade 2.
Descriptors: School Districts, English Language Learners, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Sawyer, Brook E.; Manz, Patricia H.; Martin, Kristin A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Guided by Bronfenbrenner's bio-ecological theory of human development and Moll's theory of funds of knowledge, the aim of this qualitative study was to examine the beliefs of parents and early childhood teachers on (a) the language development of Spanish-speaking preschool dual language learners (DLLs) and (b) how they can collaborate to support…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Second Language Learning, Parent Attitudes
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Garza, Esther; Arreguín-Anderson, María Guadalupe – Bilingual Research Journal, 2018
As teachers and students access their linguistic and cultural repertoire to teach and learn, comprehensible input may be possible as the result of teachers' systematic efforts to connect with their students. Some evidence of this purposeful connection has been found in studies that have explored teachers' efforts to prioritize meaning making over…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Achievement, Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction
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Kibler, Amanda K.; Hardigree, Christine – Language Learning, 2017
This 8-year longitudinal case study of Fabiola, a Spanish-English bilingual, investigated her argumentative writing development, focusing on her use of evidence to support and develop arguments over time from high school through university. Data sources included 36 writing samples. Texts across grade levels and course types were analyzed to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
Palfreyman, David M., Ed.; van der Walt, Christa, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
Research on academic literacy within higher education has focused almost exclusively on the development of academic literacy in English. This book is unique in showing how students use other languages when they engage with written academic content--whether in reading, discussing, or writing--and how increasingly multilingual higher education…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Multiple Literacies, College Students
Cho, Hyonsuk – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation presents an ethnographic case study that focuses on a bilingual child's socialization and language use in multiple contexts. To understand the complex and multidimensional socialization processes of a bilingual child, a multi-sited approach was used. The study followed a 7-year-old Korean-American bilingual child into…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Korean Americans, Elementary School Students, Korean
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Kuo, Li-Jen; Ramirez, Gloria; de Marin, Sharon; Kim, Tae-Jin; Unal-Gezer, Melike – Educational Psychology, 2017
Existing research on the impact of bilingualism on metalinguistic development has concentrated on the development of phonological awareness. The present study extended the scope of existing research by focusing on morphological awareness, an aspect of metalinguistic awareness that becomes increasingly important beyond the initial phase of literacy…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Morphology (Languages)
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Niklas, Frank; Tayler, Collette; Cohrssen, Caroline – Research Papers in Education, 2018
Early language ability is a strong predictor of later language and reading outcomes. Whilst young children with home languages that differ from the dominant language spoken in their country of residence may lag behind their peers in literacy and academic achievement, effective supports for young dual-language users may be overlooked in mainstream…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Early Childhood Education, Bilingualism, Longitudinal Studies
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Méndez, Lucía I.; Perry, Jamie; Holt, Yolanda; Bian, Hui; Fafulas, Stephen – Bilingual Research Journal, 2018
The present study examines the association of micro- and macrostructural components in narrative retells within and across languages in Spanish-English bilingual Latino kindergarten children. Using a within-subject research design, fourteen Spanish-English speaking Latino kindergarten children were individually read a scripted picture book, after…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Connected Discourse, Bilingual Students, Hispanic American Students
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Huennekens, Mary Ellen; Xu, Yaoying – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study examined the effects of an early reading intervention on preschool-age dual language learners' (DLL) early literacy skills. Instruction in phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge was embedded in interactive reading strategies, also known as dialogic reading. A single subject multiple baseline across subjects design was applied to…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy, Reading Instruction, Phonological Awareness
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Zhao, Jing; Dixon, L. Quentin; Quiroz, Blanca; Chen, Si – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
In this study, we investigated the concurrent and longitudinal relationships between vocabulary and word reading across Spanish and English. One hundred and seventeen 4- to 5-year-old Spanish-English bilingual children attending Head Start programs in the United States were tested for their Spanish and English word reading twice, 5 months apart.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education, Vocabulary, Sight Method
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Van Horn, Jordan – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2017
This case study analyzed data from an asynchronous written mediated exchange between a native speaker and nonnative speaker of English. Three methods of analysis-error analysis, propositional complexity (idea units), and qualitative analysis were used to analyze learner performance over time. The results from these methods were visualized and…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Case Studies, Applied Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language)
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Hanson, Havala; Bisht, Biraj; Greenberg Motamedi, Jason – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2017
Students who take advanced courses in high school are more likely to enroll and persist in college. This report describes patterns in advanced coursetaking among three groups of students in Washington state: Spanish-speaking students, other language minority students whose primary or home language is not Spanish, and English-only speakers. This…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Enrollment Trends, Academic Achievement, Spanish Speaking
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