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Wickerd, Garry; Tremblay, Sarah – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
Adaptive behavior rating scales are widely used assessments that ask teachers and parents to rate how well students care for themselves, interact with others, and exhibit practical and academic skills. While adaptive rating scales have yielded reliable and valid results, it is unclear how the readability of the rating forms may impact the results,…
Descriptors: Readability, Behavior Rating Scales, English, Spanish
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Fernando Moncada; Romualdo Ibáñez; Andrea Santana; Claudia Guerra – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The Hybrid Text Comprehension cloze (HyTeC-cloze) (Kleijn et al. Lang Test 36:553--572, 2019) is a procedure developed for the Dutch language that has been proved to be a valid and reliable measure of text comprehension beyond the sentence level. Given its advantages, including its relatively rapid construction and scoring and performance compared…
Descriptors: Spanish, Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Indo European Languages
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Quintero, Stella; Zraick, Richard I.; Rosa-Lugo, Linda I.; La Scala, Jennifer D. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the readability of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B procedural safeguard notices written in Spanish, as distributed by each of the 50 states in the United States and the District of Columbia. Results were compared with the 6th-8th grade document readability guideline…
Descriptors: Readability, Equal Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Angela Johnson – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background or Context: Dual language education aims to foster the development of bilingualism, biliteracy, sociocultural competence, and academic skills in all school subjects. Early correlational research suggests that participation in dual language education is associated with higher achievement. Recent studies leveraged more comprehensive sets…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Hispanic American Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Magdalena Pando – Language and Education, 2024
This is a qualitative case study framed by a sociosemiotic theoretical framework to explore science and language instruction with three Emergent Bilinguals (EBs) in sixth grade. The study details the modeling and explanatory processes used by EBs to mediate science learning through evidence-based argumentation. A thematic analysis of students'…
Descriptors: Science Education, Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Education, Persuasive Discourse
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Liliana Herrera Nieves; Verónica De La Hoz Vargas; Elis Coba Roncallo; Ariana Hernández Gutiérrez – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Reading is regarded as one of the basic learning processes that provides multiple skills and abilities for daily life. The study reported on here arose from evidence of reading comprehension difficulties of middle school students in Colombia, and from reflection on the didactic strategies used for the promotion and teaching of reading. The purpose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Middle School Students, Learning Processes
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Currie, Nicola K.; Francey, Gillian; Davies, Robert; Gray, Shelley; Bridges, Mindy S.; Restrepo, Maria Adelaida; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Ciraolo, Margeaux F.; Hu, Jinxiang; Cain, Kate – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
We examined sixth graders' detection of inconsistencies in narrative and expository passages, contrasting participants who were monolingual speakers (N = 85) or Spanish-English DLLs (N = 94) when recruited in pre-kindergarten (PK). We recorded self-paced reading times and judgments about whether the text made sense, and took an independent measure…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Nashaat-Sobhy, Nashwa; Llinares, Ana – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The ability to manage specific forms of disciplinary expression - Languages of Schooling - is regarded as a factor of academic success (Council of Europe recommendations - Council of Europe CM/Rec. [2014]. "Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the Importance of Competences in the Language(s) of Schooling for Equity…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Grade 6
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Caballero, Núria; Celaya, M. Luz – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study sets out to explore the effect of proficiency and modality of interaction on code-switching (CS) amongst two groups of Spanish-Catalan learners acquiring English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Primary school (grade 3, n = 24 and grade 6, n = 21). Data was retrieved from audio-taped oral activities (peer interaction and learner-teacher…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grade 3
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Phillips, Ariadna; Genao, Soribel – Intercultural Education, 2023
This study offers a review of existing research on translanguaging, inclusion, and computational literacies. It assesses existing school statistics and a student opinion survey released by the New York City Department of Education in Spring 2019 to investigate the attitudes and experiences of students at a public secondary school in the South…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism
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Araceli Enriquez-Andrade; Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui; Jie Zhang; Lana Kharabi-Yamato; Jackie Eunjung Relyea; Sissy S. Wong – Language and Education, 2024
This study explores teachers' use of Spanish in sixth-grade bilingual science classrooms at an urban middle school in Texas. We used a case study approach to study how two Spanish-English bilingual teachers utilized Spanish during instruction in a unit on space exploration and their beliefs on Spanish use in English-dominant science classrooms.…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development
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Vraciu, Alexandra; Pladevall-Ballester, Elisabet – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This longitudinal study explores the effects of time and proficiency pairing on the amount and purpose of L1 use in task-based peer interaction by EFL primary school learners. Most of the studies available to date on L1 use in peer interaction involve adult learners, and we have little empirical evidence on the role played by the L1 in child peer…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Interaction, Elementary School Students, Native Language
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Lázaro, Miguel; Illera, Víctor; Acha, Joana; Escalonilla, Ainoa; García, Seila; Sainz, Javier S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The role of morphological processing has been shown to be highly relevant in learning to read. However, there is little evidence on the processing of derivational suffixes from a developmental perspective. The aim of this study is to assess the developmental emergence of suffixes as meaningful processing units in word recognition. To that aim, 96…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Word Recognition, Suffixes, Spanish
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Brutt-Griffler, Janina; Jang, Eunjee – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Employing a mixed-methods research design, this study examines how a newly designed dual language program in an urban school advances language proficiencies among Spanish-English bilingual 6th graders in relation to content area achievement as measured on NYS standardized tests in English Language Arts and Math. It further investigates how…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Academic Achievement, Language Proficiency
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Àngels Llanes; Júlia Barón; Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
Second Language Pragmatics (L2 pragmatics) research focused on the study abroad (SA) context points out the benefits of this context for second language (L2) pragmatic development while also illustrating the non-linearity of this development, as it is shaped by different contextual factors and individual differences. Nevertheless, this research…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad, Pragmatics
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