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Learning English through Art in the Elementary School.

Salabarria, Elina – 1982

A practicum program using art activities to help eight Hispanic immigrant kindergarten children learn English was developed and implemented over a period of 10 weeks. Rather than relying on one learning mode, program designers used activities to stimulate visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile senses in order to teach color, relative length,…

Descriptors: Art Activities, Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Hispanic Americans

The Effects of Multisensory Structured Language Instruction on Native Language and Foreign Language Aptitude Skills of At-Risk High School Foreign Language Learners.

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Sparks, Richard; And Others – Annals of Dyslexia, 1992

A multisensory structured language (MSL) approach was utilized with two groups of at-risk high school students (n=63), taught in either English and Spanish (MSL/ES) or Spanish only. Foreign language aptitude improved for both groups and native language skills for the MSL/ES group. A group receiving traditional foreign language instruction showed…

Descriptors: High Risk Students, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Aptitude