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Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Kieffer, Michael J. – Educational Researcher, 2010
This study investigates change in the home language environment of Language Minority (LM) learners between kindergarten and eighth grade, drawing on data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K) Cohort. The analytic sample included 1,538 children whose parents reported a language…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Patterns, Kindergarten, Grade 8
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O'Toole, John Mitchell; King, Robert A. R. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2010
This quantitative study intends to better understand the impact of the location of the first deleted word upon the estimation of text difficulty yielded by successive cloze tests based on random deletion from a single passage. The variation in sampling of language features across five cloze tests based on the same passage is random and thus not…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Readability, Nouns, Figurative Language