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Direct linkCho, Eunsoo; Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Hwang, Jin Kyoung; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Seethaler, Pamela M.; Fuchs, Douglas – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
The purpose of this study was threefold: to examine unique and shared risk factors of comorbidity for reading comprehension and word-problem solving difficulties, to explore whether language minority (LM) learners are at increased risk of what we refer to as "higher order comorbidity" (reading comprehension and word-problem solving…
Descriptors: Comorbidity, Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Kieffer, Michael J.; Biancarosa, Gina; Christodoulou, Joanna A.; Snow, Catherine E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The development of reading skills in language minority (LM) learners, particularly during the middle school years, remains unclear despite the increasing need for educators to serve this rapidly growing population. In this study, the English reading comprehension growth of middle school LM learners was investigated using a longitudinal design and…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Grade 7
Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Lesaux, Nonie K. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
This longitudinal study examined the association between early patterns of home language use (age 4.5 years) and vocabulary growth (ages 4.5 to 12 years) in English and Spanish for 180 Spanish-speaking language minority learners followed from ages 4.5 to 12 years. Standardized measures of vocabulary were administered to children from ages 4.5 to…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Vocabulary, National Norms, Vocabulary Skills
Kieffer, Michael J.; Biancarosa, Gina; Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This study investigated the direct and indirect roles of morphological awareness reading comprehension for Spanish-speaking language minority learners reading in English. Multivariate path analysis was used to investigate the unique contribution of derivational morphological awareness to reading comprehension as well as its indirect contributions…
Descriptors: Role, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Kieffer, Michael J. – Educational Researcher, 2010
This study investigates change in the home language environment of Language Minority (LM) learners between kindergarten and eighth grade, drawing on data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K) Cohort. The analytic sample included 1,538 children whose parents reported a language…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Patterns, Kindergarten, Grade 8
Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Lesaux, Nonie K. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
This longitudinal study examined the process of English reading comprehension at age 11 years for 173 low-achieving Spanish-speaking children. The influence of growth rates, from early childhood (age 4.5 years) to pre-adolescence (age 11 years), in vocabulary and word reading skills on this complex process were evaluated with structural equation…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication, Structural Equation Models
Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
This pilot study investigated the effects of a 20-week quasiexperimental vocabulary intervention aimed at improving Spanish-speaking language minority students' English vocabulary and writing outcomes. Participants were two matched samples of fifth graders (N = 49) in a predominantly Latino, low-income urban school. Pre- and posttest analyses…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Urban Schools, Speech Communication, Intervention
