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Direct linkAlissa Patricia Wolters – ProQuest LLC, 2023
We examined spelling errors patterns, cohesive ties, and syntax features in English and Spanish essays written by Spanish-English emergent bilinguals in Grades 1, 2, and 3 (N = 278; 51% female) enrolled in either English immersion or English-Spanish dual immersion programs. In Study 1, we addressed whether students made consistent spelling errors…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Download full textJoy, Rhonda – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
The study reported on in this paper investigated the concurrent development of spelling in children learning two languages. The study compared over time and between languages the types of spelling errors made in English as a first language and French as a second. Fortyseven grade one English-speaking children completed an English and French…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Spelling, Spelling Instruction
Parsons, Christine E.; Lyddy, Fiona – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2009
For the majority of people in Ireland, Irish is a second language acquired primarily through the schooling system. This study examined the reading strategies children used in response to English and Irish words (presented in isolation), through an analysis of their oral reading errors. Children in their 4th year of schooling attending…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Immersion Programs, Early Reading, Reading Strategies
PDF pending restorationBeniak, Edouard – 1984
Three studies are presented, each of which is a comparison of the acquisition of an aspect of the French verb system by three groups of speakers. The speakers are: young Anglophones learning French as a second language in an early French immersion program in Montreal; young monolingual Francophones attending elementary French language schools in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Children, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
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)
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
