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Evaluating Cultural and Linguistic Load of IQ Scores for English Language Learners
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Calderón-Tena, Carlos O.; Styck, Kara M.; Vega, Desireé; Kranzler, John H. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2022
The assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, including students who are learning English as a second language (English language learners, ELL), is a challenge for many school psychologists who have limited training and practice opportunities with students from these populations. According to the National Center for…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Identifying Profiles of Struggling Adult Readers: Relative Strengths and Weaknesses in Lower-Level and Higher-Level Competencies
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Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Li, Hongli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
A major challenge in research with struggling adult readers is their heterogeneity in reading-related competencies and demographic characteristics. The purpose of this investigation was to identify unique profiles of skill sets among struggling adult readers and explore informative demographic differences between profiles. Using latent class…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Reading Skills, Individual Characteristics
Identifying Profiles of Struggling Adult Readers: Relative Strengths and Weaknesses in Lower-Level and Higher-Level Competencies
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Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Li, Hongli – Grantee Submission, 2020
A major challenge in research with struggling adult readers is their heterogeneity in reading-related competencies and demographic characteristics. The purpose of this investigation was to identify unique profiles of skill sets among struggling adult readers and explore informative demographic differences between profiles. Using latent class…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Reading Skills, Individual Characteristics
Word Learning in Adults with Second-Language Experience: Effects of Phonological and Referent Familiarity
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Kaushanskaya, Margarita; Yoo, Jeewon; Van Hecke, Stephanie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: The goal of this research was to examine whether phonological familiarity exerts different effects on novel word learning for familiar versus unfamiliar referents and whether successful word learning is associated with increased second-language experience. Method: Eighty-one adult native English speakers with various levels of Spanish…
Descriptors: Phonology, Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Adults
Literacy Skill Differences between Adult Native English and Native Spanish Speakers
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Herman, Julia; Cote, Nicole Gilbert; Reilly, Lenore; Binder, Katherine S. – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2013
The goal of this study was to compare the literacy skills of adult native English and native Spanish ABE speakers. Participants were 169 native English speakers and 124 native Spanish speakers recruited from five prior research projects. The results showed that the native Spanish speakers were less skilled on morphology and passage comprehension…
Descriptors: Native Language, Native Speakers, English, Spanish Speaking
Reading Component Skills of Learners in Adult Basic Education
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Konold, Timothy R.; Glutting, Joseph J.; Alamprese, Judith A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The purposes of this study were to investigate the reliability and construct validity of measures of reading component skills with a sample of adult basic education (ABE) learners, including both native and nonnative English speakers, and to describe the performance of those learners on the measures. Investigation of measures of reading components…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Construct Validity, Validity, Adult Basic Education