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Geva, Esther; Farnia, Fataneh – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
We examined theoretical issues concerning the development of reading fluency and language proficiency in 390 English Language Learners (ELLs,) and 149 monolingual, English-as-a-first language (EL1) students. The extent to which performance on these constructs in Grade 5 (i.e., concurrent predictors) contributes to reading comprehension in the…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, English Language Learners
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Baker, Doris Luft; Park, Yonghan; Baker, Scott K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The purposes of this study were to (a) examine the developmental patterns in pseudoword reading and oral reading fluency in Spanish and English for Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) in grades 1-3, and (b) investigate whether initial status and growth rates in reading fluency in Spanish and English, significantly predicted reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading, Reading Programs