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Direct linkHoff, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 2013
On average, children from low socioeconomic status (SES) homes and children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken have language development trajectories that are different from those of children from middle-class, monolingual English-speaking homes. Children from low-SES and language minority homes have unique linguistic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Language Skills, Second Language Learning
Riazantseva, Anastasia – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2012
The purpose of this case-study was to understand the relationship between success in college and L2 academic writing of three Generation 1.5 Russian-speaking middle-class college students and to describe the factors that could have contributed to the levels of academic literacy that these students developed. The following research questions were…
Descriptors: College Students, Middle Class, Socialization, Reputation
Beach, Dennis; Dovemark, Marianne – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This article uses ethnographic research from two Year 8 classes in two middle-sized secondary schools about a kilometre apart in a Swedish west-coast town to examine how new policies for personalised learning have developed in practice, in the performative cultures of modern schools in a commodity society. One school stands in a predominantly…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Zamir, Jan – Studies in Language Learning, 1981
A study was made of language attitudes of suburban middle class high school students with special reference to French, German, Spanish, and Latin. Of the 621 subjects chosen for the study, 82 had never had any foreign language learning experience. Two types of questionnaires were given, one to those who had studied foreign language and the other…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, French, German, Grades (Scholastic)
Peer reviewedHolobow, Naomi E.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Presents the results of the second year of a four-year longitudinal evaluation of a partial French immersion program in Cincinnati, Ohio, that includes children from lower socioeconomic group and ethnic minority group (Black) backgrounds in addition to majority (White) and middle-class students. (17 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs
