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English Learning Predictors of Listening and Speaking Self-Efficacy for Adult Second Language Learners

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Grafals, Zoraida – ProQuest LLC, 2013

The purpose of this study was twofold. First, this study was conducted to compare English communicative competency achievement between two different models of instruction. Adult English language learners (AELLs) participated in either the communicative task-based (CTB) or in a more traditional (MT) language instructional approach. The goal of the…

Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Control Groups

Effects of an Elementary Two Way Bilingual Spanish-English Immersion School Program on Junior High and High School Student Achievement

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Vega, Luis Diego – ProQuest LLC, 2014

This study explores the effects of a Two-Way Bilingual Immersion (TWBI) program on language majority and minority students. The fundamental hypothesis was that the process of receiving instruction in two languages (English and Spanish) throughout elementary school (i.e., attendance at a TWBI school) would help the native Spanish-speaking students…

Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education Programs, Quasiexperimental Design, Control Groups

"Read My Story!" Using the Early Authors Program to Promote Early Literacy among Diverse, Urban Preschool Children in Poverty

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Bernhard, Judith K.; Winsler, Adam; Bleiker, Charles; Ginieniewicz, Jorge; Madigan, Amy L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2008

This article evaluates the utility of the Early Authors Program, a 12-month early literacy intervention emphasizing highly meaningful language interactions that was implemented in childcare facilities in an ethnically and linguistically diverse, urban, low-income community. Children learn to be writers and readers by creating their own…

Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Poverty