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Manqian Zhao – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The rapid growth of Mandarin Chinese and English dual-language (DL) programs and the differences between these two languages have fostered the need to investigate the early literacy performance of young students in a Mandarin/English DL program. This study used the interactive transfer framework (Chung et al., 2019) to understand the Mandarin and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lindsay Meyer Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over the years, less attention is given to students' spelling skills compared to other areas of literacy achievement like word reading and passage comprehension in relationship to nonmainstream dialect usage. Considering that English spelling is based on the phonological and morphological structures of Mainstream American English (MAE), it is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Black Dialects, Spelling, Grade 1
Ganzeveld, Paula – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Curriculum-Based Measures in writing (CBM-W) assesses a variety of fluency-based components of writing. While support exists for the use of CBM measures in the area of writing, there is a need to conduct further validation studies to investigate the utility of these measures within elementary and secondary classrooms. Since only countable indices…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Writing Evaluation, Test Validity, Educational Quality