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Direct linkChristina M. Budde; Margaret Sullivan Marcus; Melinda Martin-Beltrán; Rebecca D. Silverman – Grantee Submission, 2022
Few studies investigate how teacher discourse moves relate to subsequent student discourse moves in real-time small-group reading instruction with multilingual learners (MLLs). Grounded in sociocultural theory and classroom discourse research, this study examines how fourth-grade MLLs engage in reasoning discourse during text-based discussions. We…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Small Group Instruction, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Phillips Galloway, Emily; Uccelli, Paola; Aguilar, Gladys; Barr, Christopher D. – AERA Open, 2020
In this study, we examine the unique and shared contributions of Spanish and English core academic language skills (CALS) to English reading comprehension in a population of Spanish-English dual language learners in Grades 4 and 5 (n = 165). We focus on cross-disciplinary CALS, operationalized as sets of high-utility lexical, syntactic and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Spanish, Academic Language, Language Skills
Hsieh, Yufen – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
The study investigated the development of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity, two key indicators of writing quality, in Chinese second language (L2) writing. The Guiraud Index and T-unit length were used to measure lexical and syntactic growth through a cross-sectional design. Seven hundred and sixty-five narrative essays were collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Chinese, Second Language Instruction
Christina Tausch – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Students with English as second language (ESL) are typically behind monolingual peers in reading comprehension even when phonemic awareness skills, phonics and word recognition are at grade level. The lack of syntactic awareness is one of the reasons cited in multiple studies (August & Shanahan, 2010; Da Fountoura & Siegel, 1995; Lesaux…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Syntax, Intervention
Met, Myriam; And Others – 1979
This document presents sample lesson plans for Level 3, part of a proposed fourth volume in this series of curriculum guides, and a more detailed sampling of Level 4, which will be volume 5 of the series. The samples for Level 3 are two lesson plans for Unit Two, the content of Unit 7, and some lesson plans for that unit. The Level 4 section…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Course Content, Cross Cultural Training, Curriculum Guides
Hippner-Page, Tina – 2000
There is a multitude of research on vocabulary methods or strategies, how many relate to second language learners and the importance of vocabulary knowledge to reading comprehension. Researchers have explored the possibility that grouping words in a manner other than the traditional list of nouns, all fitting under a common theme, might be more…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Grade 3, Grade 4
