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Davis, Andréa K.; Bowman, Natalie; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: The goal of this study was to examine the effect of cognates on Spanish-English bilingual children's English reading fluency. Because cognates lead to higher levels of non-target language activation, we hypothesised that the presence of cognates would result in reduced reading fluency for bilingual children. Methods: Monolingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English, Reading Fluency
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Cruz de Quiros, Ana M.; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Tong, Fuhui; Irby, Beverly J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of structured story reading intervention, "S"tory re"T"elling and higher order thinking for "E"nglish "L"anguage and "L"iteracy "A"cquisition (STELLA), delivered to 38 Hispanic English language learners (ELL) placed in an enhanced transitional bilingual programme over 2 years from…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, English