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Ibrahim A. Asadi; Ronen Kasperski – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
This study aimed to examine the validity of the "simple view of reading" (SVR) model in the diglossic Arabic language. Using a longitudinal design, we tested whether decoding and listening comprehension (LC) in kindergarten can later predict reading comprehension (RC) in the first grade and whether the contribution of LC to RC differs…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten, Models, Dialects
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Zachary Maher; Carolyn Mazzei; Ebony Terrell Shockley; Tatiana Thonesavanh; Jan Edwards – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Despite decades of sociolinguistic research, African American Language (AAL) remains stigmatized throughout the United States education system. There have been proposals to counteract this through curricula and/or ideological interventions targeted at teachers that seek to validate AAL while maintaining Dominant American English (DAE) as an…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Kevin W. H. Tai; Chiu-Yin Wong – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Despite the extensive research on translanguaging in bi/multilingual classrooms, research on the context of first language (L1) classrooms remains scarce. This study fills the research gap by examining how a translanguaging space was created in an L1 classroom to prepare students to inhabit a world with different linguistic and cultural practices.…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis
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Thanyathamrongkul, Rattima; Singhasiri, Wareesiri; Keyuravong, Sonthida – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Prompted by UNESCO initiatives on promoting world literacy (UNESCO, 2005, 2014), many countries, including Thailand, have launched language education policies to push literacy development forward. Accordingly, this study seeks to investigate the policies promoting literacy in Thailand and their implementation at the local level. Language education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thai, Literacy Education, Educational Policy
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Zipke, Marcy – First Language, 2016
The ability to flexibly approach the pronunciation of unknown words, or set "for variability", has been shown to contribute to word recognition skills. However, this is the first study that has attempted to teach students strategies for increasing their set for variability. Beginning readers (N = 15) were instructed to correct oral…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Control Groups, Spelling, Word Recognition
Laboucan, Billy Joe, Ed.; Dion, Susan, Ed.; Sawers, Neil, Ed.; Scott, J. Marilyn, Ed. – Alberta Education, 2009
The underlying foundations for all elements of this "Cree Language and Culture 12-year Program Guide to Implementation (Kindergarten to Grade 3)" are Cree values--those viewpoints and ways of being that characterize the Cree way of life. They are as important today in educating students in the Cree language and culture as they have ever…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Values, Program Guides, Kindergarten