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Bauer, Eurydice B., Ed.; Gort, Mileidis, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
A large and growing number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the US and around the world have the potential to develop bilingualism and biliteracy if supported in their immediate environment. At the forefront in focusing exclusively on biliteracy development in early childhood across a variety of languages, this…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Caregiver Role, Grade 1, Bilingualism
Hardman, Joel, Ed.; And Others – 1990
The working papers contained in this volume include the following: "Creating Successful Learning Contexts for Biliteracy" (Nancy H. Hornberger), which focuses on characteristics of linguistic minority students in two classrooms situated in contrasting communities, programs, and language contexts; "Narrative Skills and Literacy…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
CERVENKA, EDWARD J. – 1967
A STUDY TO DEVELOP INSTRUMENTS TO MEASURE CHILD BILINGUALISM AND BICULTURAL SOCIALIZATION WAS CONDUCTED IN DEL RIO, TEXAS, A MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN WHICH SCHOOL IS TAUGHT IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH. THREE INSTRUMENTS WERE DEVELOPED--(1) A SERIES OF 6 TESTS FOR MEASURING LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH, (2) A SIMILAR SERIES OF 6 TESTS FOR…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Grade 1
Danner, Fred W.; Taylor, Arthur M. – 1972
The effects of integrated pictures of nouns, training in imagining relations between separate pictures of nouns, and the combination of training and integrated pictures on the recall of noun triplets were assessed in children from grades one, three, and six. The cued recall of nouns under these three conditions was from 2 to 6 times greater than…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 6
Arnold, Richard D. – 1968
A study to determine the effects of oral-aural teaching (intensive language instruction) techniques on pupils' gains in reading proficiency involved 1418 pupils. A sample of first graders and a sample of second graders were each subdivided into four groups. Group one was exposed to oral-aural teaching methods in English for the presentation of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Bilingual Students, Disadvantaged, Elementary School Science
Murphy, Emily – 1984
Designed to be integrated into a regular language arts curriculum in grades 1-3, the program begins with a review of the recent history of elementary second language programs in the United States and a discussion of the direction the movement might take in the 1980s. Research done on nonintensive, nonbilingual second language programs in the past…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Curriculum Development, Educational Benefits, Educational History