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Download full textUmansky, Ilana M.; Valentino, Rachel A.; Reardon, Sean F. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015
One in five school-age children in the U.S. speaks a language other than English at home (Zeigler & Camarota, 2014). Roughly half of these emerging bilingual students (Garcia, 2009) are classified as English learners (ELs) when they enter school, meaning they do not meet state or district criteria for English proficiency (NCES, 2015). As the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Students, English Language Learners
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This study investigated the effect of a large group narrative intervention on diverse preschoolers' narrative language skills with aims to explore questions of treatment efficacy and differential response to intervention. A quasi-experimental, pretest/posttest comparison group research design was employed with 71 preschool children. Classrooms…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, At Risk Students, Preschool Education, Quasiexperimental Design
Madrid, Leasher Dennis; Canas, Madeline; Ortega-Medina, Mona – Journal of Educational Research, 2007
Sixteen Hispanic Spanish/English bilingual children (6 boys and 10 girls) participated in a single-subject design study. Their chronological ages ranged from 8 to 9.5 years. The classroom teacher identified all the children as "academic at risk" on the basis of a history of poor academic performance in spelling and low scores on the…
Descriptors: Competition, Tutoring, Peer Teaching, English (Second Language)
Swanson, Teri J.; Hodson, Barbara W.; Schommer-Aikins, Marlene – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2005
Purpose: The goal of this study was to examine posttreatment outcomes following direct, systematic phonological awareness instruction for seventh-grade poor readers, most of whom had English as their second language. Method: The treatment group (n=35) participated in small-group instruction sessions that emphasized phonological awareness at the…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Outcomes of Treatment, Grade 7, Reading Difficulties
Lopez, Maria G.; Tashakkori, Abbas – Bilingual Research Journal, 2006
This study investigated the effects of two types of bilingual programs (two-way and transitional) on the academic performance and attitudes of fifth-grade students who entered kindergarten or first grade with different levels of English proficiency. A mixed methods design with both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analyses phases…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 5, Oral Language, Bilingual Students
