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Gómez Franco, Ligia E.; Vasilyeva, Marina – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Most bilingual children often display greater proficiency and preference for one of their two languages. Researchers refer to this asymmetry as language dominance. However, despite being possible to determine the overall language dominance in bilinguals, there may be substantial flexibility in their language use. In particular, the relative ease…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grade 1, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
Borman, Geoffrey D.; Borman, Trisha H.; Park, So Jung; Houghton, Scott – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
We present findings from a randomized controlled trial of "Descubriendo la Lectura" (DLL), an intervention designed to improve the literacy skills of Spanish-speaking first graders, who are struggling with reading. DLL offers one-on-one native language literacy instruction for 12 to 20 weeks to each school's lowest performing…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Literacy, Literacy Education, Grade 1
Adriana Soto-Corominas; Marta Segura; Helena Roquet; Noelia Navarro; Yagmur Elif Met – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Research on the effects of bilingualism on third language (L3) development set in bilingual communities is scarce, outdated, and has provided mixed results. This study investigated the effects of exposure and age of onset of acquisition (AOA) of L3-English, as well as first and second language (L1/L2) skills and use, in the development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Romance Languages, Bilingualism

Jennifer L. Steele; Johanna Watzinger-Tharp; Robert O. Slater; Gregg Roberts; Karl Bowman – Grantee Submission, 2024
The rising demand for dual-language immersion (DLI) programs, which offer core instruction in two languages from early grades onward, has raised questions about program design and access. We leverage the rapid expansion of DLI schools across the U.S. state of Utah to estimate effects of DLI program availability on the academic achievement of…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Benefits, Second Language Learning
Alissa Patricia Wolters; Young-suk Grace Kim – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated spelling errors in English and Spanish essays by Spanish-English dual language learners in Grades 1, 2, and 3 (N = 278; 51% female) enrolled in either English immersion or English-Spanish dual immersion programs. We examined what types of spelling errors students made, whether they made spelling errors that could be due to…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Anny Castilla-Earls; David J. Francis; Aquiles Iglesias – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study examined the relationship between utterance length, syntactic complexity, and the probability of making an error at the utterance level. Method: The participants in this study included 830 Spanish-speaking first graders who were learning English at school. Story retells in both Spanish and English were collected from all…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Spanish, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Alissa Patricia Wolters; Young-suk Grace Kim – Grantee Submission, 2023
We investigated spelling errors in English and Spanish essays by Spanish-English dual language learners in Grades 1, 2, and 3 (N = 278; 51% female) enrolled in either English immersion or English-Spanish dual immersion programs. We examined what types of spelling errors students made, whether they made spelling errors that could be due to…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Arizmendi, Genesis D.; Asencio Pimentel, Monica F.; Li, Jui-Teng; Swanson, H. Lee – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
The phonological loop of the working memory system plays a key role in language learning. This study examined the trajectories between two dual-language learner groups (English Learners [ELs] and Spanish Learners [SLs]) on phonological loop measures in L1 and L2. At Grade 1, children completed a battery of vocabulary and cognitive measures and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Frigolé, Neus; Tresserras, Eva – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The aim of this article is to explore how the teaching of English as a foreign language is planned in three plurilingual state schools in Catalonia. We carried out classroom observations (first and second grade of primary education) and interviewed the English teachers who teach these lessons and the headmasters of the three schools. The use of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Wofford, Mary Claire; Cano, Jessica; Goodrich, J. Marc; Fitton, Lisa – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: This study examined performance of dual language learners (DLLs) on Spanish- and English-language narrative story retells and unique tells. Transcription and analysis focused on comparisons of common microstructural language sample measures in Spanish and English across tasks. Each language sample measure was evaluated for its possible…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Natalia Palacios; Natalie L. Bohlmann; Bethany A. Bell; Min Hyun Oh; Yitong Yue – AERA Open, 2024
Utilizing Utah state data, the aim of this study is to examine the association between language program types programs (dual language programs [DLI], sheltered instruction [SEI], and English as a second language [ESL]) since first grade and third-grade basic literacy skills of Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) in the United States. We employ…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Outcomes of Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Durán, Leah – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
This research employs a language ideologies framework to examine the language practices and beliefs of bilingual first grade students in an ESL classroom, in which the teacher valued and encouraged Spanish and translingual talk and writing. Using ethnographic methods of data collection and analysis, the findings pointed to the influence of both…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Bilingualism, Language Attitudes
Manqian Zhao – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The rapid growth of Mandarin Chinese and English dual-language (DL) programs and the differences between these two languages have fostered the need to investigate the early literacy performance of young students in a Mandarin/English DL program. This study used the interactive transfer framework (Chung et al., 2019) to understand the Mandarin and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
DeNicolo, Christina P. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
Bilingual education can promote a sense of school belonging for students through a shared valuing of students' home languages and cultures. This article explores how bilingual education contributes to sense of belonging for students who have more than one home language and are becoming trilingual in school. This qualitative study examines how a…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Student School Relationship, Multilingualism, Native Language
Shen, Ye; Wang, Rui; Zhang, Fan; Barbieri, Christina Areizaga; Pasquarella, Adrian – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The present study examined the effect of children's enrollment in U.S. dual-language immersion (DLI) programs in first grade on English development across five years, using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2011 (ECLS-K:2011) database. Propensity score matching was used to create comparable groups of DLI and non-DLI…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Bilingual Education Programs, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students
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