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Chien, Chin-Wen – Current Issues in Education, 2015
This study analyzed 24 pre-service elementary school English teachers' design and delivery of remedial education to the fifth and sixth graders in the collaboration between the university pre-service teacher education program and the local elementary school in a city in northwest Taiwan. The pre-service teachers were encouraged by the elementary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Remedial Instruction, Grade 5
Parker, Christine Coleman – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The current literature indicates a need for quality studies on how best to close the achievement gap between elementary English language learners (ELLs) and their English speaking peers. The purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed methods research study was to determine the relationship between standards-based differentiated instructional…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Methods Research, Group Discussion, Intervention
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Lewis, Scott; Lee, Okhee; Santau, Alexandra; Cone, Neporcha – School Science and Mathematics, 2010
Student initiatives play an important role in inquiry-based science with all students, including English language learning (ELL) students. This study examined initiatives that elementary students made as they participated in an intervention to promote science learning and English language development over a three-year period. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Grade 5, Grade 3, English (Second Language)
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Barton, Amanda; Bragg, Joanna; Serratrice, Ludovica – Language Learning Journal, 2009
In a paper published in "The Language Learning Journal" in 2005, Eric Hawkins describes his vision of language education as an apprenticeship comprising two stages. In stage one (ages 5-14), the purpose is "educational" and the focus is on language awareness; in stage two (14-19), the purpose is "instrumental" and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Incentives, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries