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Bunta, Ferenc; Douglas, Michael – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: The present study investigated the effects of supporting both English and Spanish on language outcomes in bilingual children with hearing loss (HL) who used listening devices (cochlear implants and hearing aids). The English language skills of bilingual children with HL were compared to those of their monolingual English-speaking peers'…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Hearing Impairments
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Goodrich, J. Marc; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Farver, JoAnn M. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the cross-language relations between the phonological awareness (PA) skills of preschool children learning more than one language are dependent upon their first-and second-language oral language skills. Four hundred sixty-six Spanish-speaking language minority children participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Skills, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Shenoy, Sunaina – Berkeley Review of Education, 2014
English language learners (ELLs) who are in the process of acquiring English as a second language for academic purposes, are often misidentified as having Language Learning Disabilities (LLDs). Policies regarding the assessment of ELLs have undergone many changes through the years, such as the introduction of a Response to Intervention (RTI)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Impairments, Language Skills