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Mark B. Pacheco; F. Chris Curran; Lelydeyvis Boza; Amber W. Deig; Katharine T. Harris; Tiffany S. Tan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This study contributes to a growing body of scholarship at the intersection of bilingual education and education policy and examines reclassification, or the transition out of formal English language services in schools, as one potential lever in accelerating or decelerating multilingual learners' science learning. More specifically, it traces…
Descriptors: Classification, Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Educational Research
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Ju, Unhee; Cho, Eunsoo; Relyea, Jackie E.; Choi, Ina – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
This study examined the role of parents' early home language use in the English reading development of emergent bilinguals (N = 3,058) and how their relations are moderated by children's oral English language proficiency using longitudinal data from kindergarten to eighth grade (ages 6-15 years). Results from multi-group latent basis growth models…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Environment, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Umansky, Ilana M.; Dumont, Hanna – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
Prior research has shown that English learner (EL) classification is consequential for students; however, less is known about how EL classification affects student outcomes. In this study, we examine one hypothesized mechanism: teacher perceptions. Using a national data set (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 or…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Labeling (of Persons), Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes
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Ye Shen; J. Marc Goodrich – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Spanish-speaking students constitute the largest subgroup of emergent bilingual (EB) students in the United States. Using longitudinal data on a nationally representative sample of Spanish-English EBs, we explore profiles of English reading trajectories and how early individual differences (i.e., early Spanish reading and English oral proficiency)…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hall, Garret J.; Albers, Craig A. – School Psychology, 2022
Using kindergarten up to fourth-grade data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (2010--2011 cohort), we investigated systematic variability in English language learners' (ELLs; n = 303) mathematics growth as well as relations of kindergarten language growth and working memory (WM) to ELLs' mathematics growth. Using growth mixture modeling,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Goodrich, J. Marc; Koziol, Natalie A.; Yoon, HyeonJin; Leiva, Sergio – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Despite much research examining whether bilingual individuals demonstrate superior executive function (EF) skills compared to monolinguals, the purported bilingual advantage remains controversial. One potential reason for discrepant findings across studies examining the bilingual advantage is the difficulty in matching monolingual and bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Executive Function, Surveys, Children
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Shen, Ye; Wang, Rui; Zhang, Fan; Barbieri, Christina Areizaga; Pasquarella, Adrian – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The present study examined the effect of children's enrollment in U.S. dual-language immersion (DLI) programs in first grade on English development across five years, using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2011 (ECLS-K:2011) database. Propensity score matching was used to create comparable groups of DLI and non-DLI…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Bilingual Education Programs, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students