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Direct linkLeafstedt, Jill M.; Richards, Catherine R.; Gerber, Michael M. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
This article examines the effects of intensive phonological-awareness (PA) instruction for kindergarten English learners. One intact kindergarten class was provided 300 minutes of intensive instruction in PA. Results indicate that students who received intervention made significant growth in word reading when compared to a cohort of kindergarten…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Phonology
August, Diane; Carlo, Maria; Dressler, Cheryl; Snow, Catherine – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2005
English language learners (ELLs) who experience slow vocabulary development are less able to comprehend text at grade level than their English-only peers. Such students are likely to perform poorly on assessments in these areas and are at risk of being diagnosed as learning disabled. In this article, we review the research on methods to develop…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
Pugh, Kenneth R.; Sandak, Rebecca; Frost, Stephen J.; Moore, Dina; Mencl, W. Einar – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2005
Neuroimaging studies have suggested that across different written languages, skilled reading behavior is supported by similar, largely left hemisphere (LH), networks. In addition, recent studies of reading disability (RD) in monolingual readers, conducted in several languages, suggest a common neurobiological signature for this syndrome…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, English (Second Language), Reading Instruction
Simos, P. G.; Billingsley-Marshall, R. L.; Sarkari, S.; Pataraia, E.; Papanicolaou, A. C. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2005
This article briefly outlines key issues related to the neurological substrate of basic language and reading functions in native speakers of Indo-European and Oriental Languages, and in individuals who are competent in more than one language. Modern neuroimaging techniques have been used in order to address conflicting results produced by older,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Native Speakers, Learning Disabilities
Graves, Anne W.; Gersten, Russell; Haager, Diane – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
This study examined literacy instruction in 14 first-grade classrooms of English learners (ELS) in three schools in a large urban school district in southern California over a two-year period. Pre- and posttest measures of oral-reading fluency for 186 first graders, representing 11 native languages, were the outcome data. Reading-fluency data were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 1, Teaching Methods, Classroom Observation Techniques
