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Benítez-Barrera, Carlos; Reiss, Lina; Majid, Marjan; Chau, Trisha; Wilson, Johanna; Rico, Erika Figueroa; Bunta, Ferenc; Raphael, Robert M.; de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Best practices recommend promoting the use of the home language and allowing caregivers to choose the language(s) that they want to use with their child who is deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). We examined whether Spanish-speaking caregivers of children who are DHH receive professional recommendations on oral bilingualism that follow best…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Bilingualism, Oral Language
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Farnsworth, Megan – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012
In this ethnographic study, I investigate heterogeneous-language peer interactions in an English-only kindergarten classroom. English Learners and English Proficient students co-created language necessary to build an argument, one discourse valued in schools. Students developed complex oral language proficiency skills but were viewed as engaging…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Kindergarten, Ethnography, Second Language Learning
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Smyk, Ekaterina; Restrepo, M. Adelaida; Gorin, Joanna S.; Gray, Shelley – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: This study examined the development and validation of a criterion-referenced Spanish-English Language Proficiency Scale (SELPS) that was designed to assess the oral language skills of sequential bilingual children ages 4-8. This article reports results for the English proficiency portion of the scale. Method: The SELPS assesses syntactic…
Descriptors: Validity, Measures (Individuals), Spanish, Language Proficiency