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Limlingan, Maria C.; McWayne, Christine M.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; López, Michael L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
The present study examined the relations between teacher-child interactions, teachers' Spanish use, classroom linguistic composition, and the school readiness skills of low-income, Latinx, Spanish-speaking dual language learners (DLLs), controlling for home and teacher background characteristics, with a national probability sample of Head Start…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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O'Brien, Lisa; Leighton, Christine; Giunco, Kierstin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
This mixed methods study extends findings from a prior study exploring use of increasingly-complex, expository text situated within a five-week interdisciplinary intervention in which first-grade children attending a Sheltered-English (SEI) immersion classroom advanced their conceptual knowledge and academic language approximating levels near or…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Intervention
Roberts, Theresa A; Vadasy, Patricia F; Sanders, Elizabeth A – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study investigated: 1) the influence of alphabet instructional content (letter names, letter sounds, or both) on alphabet learning and engagement of English only and dual language learner (DLL) children, and 2) the relation between children's initial status and growth in three underlying cognitive learning processes (paired-associate,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Alphabets, Experimental Groups, Control Groups