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Peer reviewedKucer, Stephen B. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1999
Considers different responses of two third-grade bilingual students to an English whole-language literacy curriculum. Examines how the students resisted, appropriated, and/or internalized a whole-language curriculum. Discusses the relationship between student curricular interactions and their literacy development. (SC)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedLim, Hwa-Ja Lee; Watson, Dorothy J. – Reading Teacher, 1993
Describes a summer school English-as-a-Second-Language classroom that uses a content-rich whole language curriculum. Highlights experiences that were successful in facilitating literacy development, including reading experiences, writing experiences, talking and reading, and talking and writing. Discusses the effectiveness of the instructional…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, English (Second Language), Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education
Ghosn, Irma K. – Forum, 1997
Describes one teacher's experience in using the whole-language approach to teach English as a second language to kindergartners in Lebanon.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Download full textWilson, Kathryn Anne – 1993
An English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) educator of migrant students in a rural county in Oregon used a whole-language approach to language and reading instruction. Although reading instruction in Spanish was preferred, lack of Spanish-speaking personnel and limited ESL instructional time prohibited that approach. In whole-language ESL, the teacher…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans, Language Experience Approach
Turner, Lyn – 1994
The case study of a Bulgarian immigrant child's literacy education in English as a Second Language (ESL) is presented. Focus is on the boy's literacy development within the context of a mainstream kindergarten/first grade classroom in Australia. The report details the teacher's observations in the classroom and particularly in the child's writing…
Descriptors: Bulgarian, Case Studies, Classroom Communication, English (Second Language)
Nigohosian, Elsie T. – 1992
A study investigated how the core experiences of a whole language kindergarten influenced four Korean immigrant children to acquire English language and literacy. Core experiences examined include reading aloud and response, shared reading and writing, independent reading and writing, and inquiry activities. Information gathered for the case…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Kuhlman, Natalie A.; And Others – 1993
A study investigated the emerging journal-writing skills of 16 monolingual Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans and 10 monolingual English-speaking first-graders in San Diego County, California, in a whole-language, two-way bilingual classroom. The research looked for developmental stages in writing in the primary language, similarities or…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Developmental Stages, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy
de Weck, Genevieve, Ed.; Sovilla, Jocelyne Buttet, Ed. – 2000
This collection of papers discusses various theoretical, clinical, and assessment issues in reading and writing delays and disorders. Topics include the following: integrating different theoretical approaches (cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, constructivism) into clinical approaches to reading and writing difficulties; difficulties of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Constructivism (Learning), Deafness, Dysgraphia
Kuehl, Matt; And Others – 1995
This lesson plan for the second and third grades uses information on dinosaurs, their adaptations and survival, to provide science education for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in San Diego, California. The primary text is "Los Dinosaurios Gigantes," a core literature book used in the school district. Lessons are based on the whole…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperative Learning, Dinosaurs, Educational Objectives
