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Direct linkLawrence, Joshua Fahey – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
In this study, I used individual growth modeling methods to examine the English word-learning trajectories of adolescent students (N = 278) whose parents speak English at home (n = 210) and those whose parents speak a language other than English (n = 68). Sixth- (n = 130) and seventh-grade (n = 148) students attending an urban middle school took…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Socioeconomic Status, Independent Reading, Vocabulary
