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An Analysis of How Restrictive Language Policies Are Interpreted by Arizona's Department of Education and Three Individual School Districts' Websites
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Jimenez-Silva, Margarita; Bernstein, Katie A.; Baca, Evelyn C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
Restrictive language policies for education have been passed in several states in the United States. In 1998, 2000, and 2002, California, Arizona, and Massachusetts passed the most restrictive of these policies, impacting 4.4 million students classified as English language learners (ELLs). This study examines how these policies are currently…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, School Districts
A Comparison of Reading Development by Learners of Japanese in Intensive Domestic Immersion and Study Abroad Contexts
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Dewey, Dan P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
To investigate the role of context in reading development, a comparison of reading comprehension and processes was conducted between learners of Japanese as a second language in study abroad (SA; n = 15) and intensive domestic (in the United States) immersion (IM; n = 15) contexts. A significant difference was found between contexts in pretest to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Language Research