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Download full textPhillips 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
Direct linkProctor, C. Patrick; Uccelli, Paola; Dalton, Bridget; Snow, Catherine E. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2009
The sheer quantity of words known (breadth) is strongly predictive of reading comprehension, yet little is understood about how quality of word knowledge (depth) affects comprehension. A group of 35 bilingual and monolingual 5th-grade students worked on developing depth of knowledge of 8 words, culminating in an activity in which the students…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Oral Language, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development
Martiniello, Maria – Harvard Educational Review, 2008
In this article, Maria Martiniello reports the findings of a study of the linguistic complexity of math word problems that were found to exhibit differential item functioning for English-language learners (ELLs) and non-ELLs taking the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) fourth-grade math test. It builds on prior research showing…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Test Items, Protocol Analysis, Mathematics Tests
