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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
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
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
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
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
Lara Bryfonski – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between task-based teacher training and novice English language teachers' cognitions and implementations of tasks in Honduran bilingual schools. After participating in a four-week training program on task-based language teaching, teachers with little or no prior teaching experience designed task-based…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Principles, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience
Weaver, Andrew; Kieffer, Michael J. – Grantee Submission, 2022
This study examines differences in English language comprehension, reading fluency, and executive functions among Spanish-English bilinguals with reading difficulties. Reading difficulties examined included general reading difficulties, defined by low word reading and reading comprehension, and specific-reading comprehension difficulties, defined…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Achievement Tests, Intelligence Tests, Verbal Ability
Weaver, Andrew; Kieffer, Michael J. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study examines differences in English language comprehension, reading fluency, and executive functions among Spanish-English bilinguals with reading difficulties. Reading difficulties examined included general reading difficulties, defined by low word reading and reading comprehension, and specific-reading comprehension difficulties, defined…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Lindholm-Leary, Kathryn – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
The purpose of this research is to examine the English language proficiency trajectories of 2,201 fourth- through eighth-grade Latino English learner (EL) students who differed by current English language proficiency and were enrolled in a dual language program. Results showed that (1) students in the four English language proficiency groups…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Hispanic American Students, Grade 4
Texas Education Agency, 2015
This annual report provides information for the 2012-13 school year on grade-level retention and student performance in the Texas public school system. Student retention and promotion data are reported with data on the performance of students in Grades 3-8 on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Public Schools, State Standards, Standardized Tests
Agarwal, Pooja K.; Roediger, Henry L., III; McDaniel, Mark A.; McDermott, Kathleen B. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
In this study, the authors examined whether a test-enhanced learning program, integrated with daily classroom practices, is effective in a middle school setting. Specifically, they implemented and experimentally evaluated a test-enhanced learning program in 6th-8th grade Social Studies, English, Science, and Spanish classes. Although laboratory…
Descriptors: Testing, Academic Achievement, Educational Practices, Grade 8
Baxter, G. P.; Ahmed, S.; Sikali, E.; Waits, T.; Sloan, M.; Salvucci, S. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
In 2003, a trial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessment was administered in Spanish to public school students at grades 4 and 8 in Puerto Rico. Based on preliminary analyses of the 2003 data, changes were made in administration and translation procedures for the 2005 NAEP administration in Puerto Rico. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Gonzalez, Juan – 1981
This article describes a set of Spanish language materials which were designed to meet the needs of Spanish-speaking children in the intermediate grades who had never been exposed to formal instruction in language arts and reading. The materials were developed by the author in collaboration with the Bilingual Materials Development Center in Fort…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Hancin-Bhatt, Barbara; Nagy, William – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
A total of 196 Latino bilingual students in grades 4, 6, and 8 were asked to give the Spanish equivalent for English words, some of which had derivational and inflectional suffixes. The results indicated that the students' ability to translate cognates increased with age above and beyond any increase in their vocabulary knowledge in Spanish and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Sherer, Victoria E.; Biemel, Jeanine S. – 1987
The Upper Arlington, Ohio school reorganization, in 1983, to include a middle school resulted in the development of a seventh-grade foreign language exploration course. The course provides nine weeks each of French, German, and Spanish, and relates the languages to content areas using an interdisciplinary approach. The fourth nine weeks would be…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Content, Cultural Awareness, English
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