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Shaughnessy, Colleen – Online Submission, 2006
The influx of immigrants and refugees with little or no previous formal education has made the investigation of English as a Second Language (ESL) literacy instructional techniques and methods a priority within the ESL professional field. The 2003-2004 resettlement of over 12,000, mostly preliterate, Somali Bantu refugees to the United States has…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Researchers, Females
Hershey, Virginia – 1981
A study was conducted to determine the influence of a holistic versus a phonic approach in beginning reading on children's comprehension scores at the end of grade two. Two groups, each of approximately 350 students, were studied. Group one began reading instruction in first grade using the "Early-to-Read i.t.a. Program" (initial teaching…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 1