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Tindall, Evie; Nisbet, Deanna – Journal of Adult Education, 2010
Teachers of adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) have increasingly encountered students with limited literacy skills in their native language and/or in English. Yet, many of these practitioners are not adequately equipped to meet the challenge of teaching reading, especially beginning reading skills. Although there is a paucity of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Reading Instruction, Beginning Reading, Literacy Education
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Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Simmons, Deborah C. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2009
There is growing evidence of cross-language transfer in metalinguistic processes related to reading acquisition and development. In particular, phonological awareness is a requisite process that shares similarities across Spanish and English. Through explicit instruction and instructional design analyses, we propose principles to facilitate…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Instructional Design, Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness
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Neufeld, Paul; Amendum, Steven J.; Fitzgerald, Jill; Guthrie, Karren M. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2006
Two main questions were addressed in this study: (1) How does first grade Latino English-language learners' growth in English instructional reading level and selected word-level reading subprocesses (ability to read words in isolation, phonemic awareness, and phonics) compare to their monolingual native-English-speaking peers' growth?; and (2)…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Monolingualism, Reading Ability, Oral English
Burnaby, Barbara J.; Anthony, Robert J. – 1979
This study examined the psycholinguistic implications of using either of two different types of orthography--syllabic and roman--in Native language programs for Cree children with regard to readability, learnability, and the transfer of reading skills to and from reading in an official language (English or French). This study can also be applied…
Descriptors: Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education