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Brown, Amber L; Lee, Joohi – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters program when implemented within Head Start programs by measuring children's language proficiency scores. Participants were kindergarteners concurrently enrolled in both a Head Start program and the Home Instruction for Parents of…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Kindergarten
Houston Independent School District, 2016
There are approximately 65,000 students in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) labeled as "English language learners" (ELLs). Many of these students have the additional obstacle of being recent immigrants who have been in the United States for three years or less. In recent years, the number of immigrant ELLs in the district…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English Language Learners, Program Evaluation, Second Language Instruction
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Bohman, Thomas M.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Mendez-Perez, Anita; Gillam, Ronald B. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
Purpose: This study assesses the factors that contribute to Spanish and English language development in bilingual children. Method: Seven hundred and fifty-seven Hispanic prekindergarten and kindergarten-age children completed screening tests of semantic and morphosyntactic development in Spanish and English. Parents provided information about…
Descriptors: Semantics, Screening Tests, Parent Education, Linguistic Input