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Cathy Hauspie; Stijn Schelfhout; Nicolas Dirix; Lot Fonteyne; Mark Janse; Arnaud Szmalec; Alexandra Vereeck; Wouter Duyck – Language Learning, 2024
Studying Latin in secondary education is still widespread in Europe and believed to result in cognitive benefits, even beyond the linguistic domain. In this study we explored the relation between such study and later academic achievement in higher education (N = 1,898). First, we demonstrated that Latin students exhibit increased levels of study…
Descriptors: Latin, Second Language Learning, Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Paez, Mariela – Bilingual Research Journal, 2009
This article describes the language skills and factors that predict English-language proficiency for a sample of 209 students ages 10 to 16 from three immigrant groups--Chinese, Dominican, and Haitian. Sources of data included structured student interviews, parent interviews, and individual language assessments. On average, students'…
Descriptors: Scoring, Language Skills, Immigrants, English (Second Language)