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Bingham, Gary E.; Hall-Kenyon, Kendra M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
This study investigated the effect of full- and half-day kindergarten programmes on English language learners (ELL) and English-only-speaking children's literacy and mathematics performance in a large urban school district. Considerations were given to how the length of the school day, children's language status (ELL and non-ELL), and children's…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Kindergarten, English
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Lefevre, Jo-Anne; Clarke, Tamara; Stringer, Alex P. – Early Child Development and Care, 2002
Examined performance of Canadian French- and English-speaking preschoolers on four number tasks. Found that French-speaking preschoolers performed more poorly on rote-counting and number-recognition than English-speaking preschoolers. Found no difference between groups on counting objects. Variability in counting and number recognition was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computation, English, Family Environment
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Nitsiou, Chrisa – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
As our world becomes increasingly multicultural in nature, multilingual skills constitute an everyday phenomenon in schools. Since most of the second-language research has focused on school-age students, more research had to be conducted with language-minority students at the kindergarten level in order for psychologists and educators to develop…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Minorities, Kindergarten, Language Acquisition