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Gómez, Margarita; Lewis, Mark A. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
We highlight how the use of holistic biliteracy and translanguaging perspectives can be applied in the assessment of emergent bilingual middle school students' writing to counter deficit views of their divergent repertoires. The study took place in a Mountain West middle school with a large Latinx population. We analyzed eleven emerging bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Students, Middle School Students, Writing (Composition)
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Alamargot, Denis; Morin, Marie-France; Simard-Dupuis, Érika – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
We set out to (i) assess the handwriting skills of signing deaf students, and (ii) examine the extent to which their text composition and spelling performances are linked to their handwriting efficiency. We asked 15 prelingually and profoundly deaf middle-school students (M = 15.18 years), all sign-language users, and a group of hearing students…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Sign Language, Deafness, Hearing (Physiology)