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Madrid, Leasher Dennis; Canas, Madeline; Ortega-Medina, Mona – Journal of Educational Research, 2007
Sixteen Hispanic Spanish/English bilingual children (6 boys and 10 girls) participated in a single-subject design study. Their chronological ages ranged from 8 to 9.5 years. The classroom teacher identified all the children as "academic at risk" on the basis of a history of poor academic performance in spelling and low scores on the…
Descriptors: Competition, Tutoring, Peer Teaching, English (Second Language)
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Echevarria, Jana; Short, Deborah; Powers, Kristin – Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The authors examined a model of instruction for English-language learners (ELLs) who were learning academic English while they tried to meet content standards required by the nation's education reform movement. In previous work (J. Echevarria, M. E. Vogt, & D. Short, 2000), the authors developed and validated a model of instruction (Sheltered…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Academic Standards, English (Second Language), Language Teachers