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Crosslinguistic Influence on Spelling in Written Compositions: Evidence from English-Spanish Dual Language Learners in Primary Grades
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Alissa Patricia Wolters; Young-suk Grace Kim – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated spelling errors in English and Spanish essays by Spanish-English dual language learners in Grades 1, 2, and 3 (N = 278; 51% female) enrolled in either English immersion or English-Spanish dual immersion programs. We examined what types of spelling errors students made, whether they made spelling errors that could be due to…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Crosslinguistic Influence on Spelling in Written Compositions: Evidence from English-Spanish Dual Language Learners in Primary Grades
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Alissa Patricia Wolters; Young-suk Grace Kim – Grantee Submission, 2023
We investigated spelling errors in English and Spanish essays by Spanish-English dual language learners in Grades 1, 2, and 3 (N = 278; 51% female) enrolled in either English immersion or English-Spanish dual immersion programs. We examined what types of spelling errors students made, whether they made spelling errors that could be due to…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Writing Skills of Grade Three French Immersion Pupils. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 7.
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Swain, Merrill – 1975
This paper analyzes short stories written in English and French by French immersion pupils at the Grade 3 level. Their English writing skills are compared to those of Grade 3 pupils in a regular English program. Aspects of their writing skills which are examined include vocabulary skills, technical skills (punctuation, capitalization and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Capitalization (Alphabetic)
L'Apprentissage du Francais Langue Seconde en Classe d'Immersion dans un Milieu Torontois (Learning French as a Second Language in Immersion Classes in a Toronto Environment). Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 1.
Dumas, Guy; And Others – 1973
Examples of the spontaneous speech in French of native English speakers, average age 7.6 years, were collected at the end of their second year in a French immersion program. Results show that the native language strongly influences second language speech production. While vocabulary and pronunciation are of course predominantly French, the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, English