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Oral Narrative Development of Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Immersion Learners
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Sung, Ko-Yin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explored the development of oral narrative retell proficiency among Mandarin Chinese-English dual language immersion (DLI) learners in Utah. The study compared the younger and the older DLI learners' oral narrative retelling production in order to provide information regarding the Mandarin narrative developmental trend of the DLI…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Mandarin Chinese, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning
Do We 'Laugh' or 'La8gh'? Early Print Knowledge and Its Relation to Learning to Read in English and French
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Chung, Sheila Cira; Geva, Esther; Chen, Xi; Deacon, S. Helene – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
Models of reading development point to a role for knowledge about the orthography quite late in children's reading development; here we explore the contributions of early orthographic knowledge -- of the features of print -- to word reading development between kindergarten and Grade 1. We did so in a longitudinal study of 93 emergent bilingual…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Bilingualism, Grade 1, Kindergarten
Contributions of Oral Narrative Skills to English Reading in Spanish-English Latino/a Dual Language Learners
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Huang, Becky H.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Ramírez, Rica; Wicha, Nicole – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The study examined the contributions of Spanish and English oral narrative skills to English reading among 95 early elementary dual language learners (DLLs) from Spanish-speaking homes in the United States. This sample of first- and third-grade DLL children attended Spanish-English dual language immersion programs and received language…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Task-Based Language Learning and Beginning Language Learners: Examining Classroom-Based Small Group Learning in Grade 1 French Immersion
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Bourgoin, Renée; Le Bouthillier, Josée – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2021
Elementary French immersion (FI) language arts teachers often organize instruction around small learning groups. Students rotate through learning stations/centres and work independently with their peers on L2 literacy skills. This study examined how principles of task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be used and/or adapted to further support…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, French, Elementary School Students, Language Arts
How Native Do They Sound? An Acoustic Analysis of the Spanish Vowels of Elementary Spanish Immersion Students
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Menke, Mandy R. – Hispania, 2015
Language immersion students' lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic competencies are well documented, yet their phonological skill has remained relatively unexplored. This study investigates the Spanish vowel productions of a cross-sectional sample of 35 one-way Spanish immersion students. Learner productions were analyzed acoustically and compared to…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Vowels, Elementary School Students, Spanish
Pictures and Words: Spanish and English Vocabulary in Classrooms
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Branum-Martin, Lee; Mehta, Paras D.; Francis, David J.; Foorman, Barbara R.; Cirino, Paul T.; Miller, Jon F.; Iglesias, Aquiles – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
The current study evaluated the relation between Spanish and English vocabulary. Whereas previously reported correlations have revealed strong differences among types of vocabulary measures used and the ages of the students tested, no prior study had used a multilevel model to control for classroom-level differences. The current study used…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Vocabulary, English (Second Language), Spanish