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Direct linkManyak, Patrick C.; Kappus, Ellen M. – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This article reports on a formative experiment involving the implementation of long-term multifaceted vocabulary instruction in second-grade Spanish-English dual-immersion classes. The findings indicate that students in the second year of the project showed accelerated growth in English vocabulary knowledge in comparison to the norming sample of a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Immersion Programs
Valenzuela, Vanessa Valeria – ProQuest LLC, 2022
It is well-documented that there is a strong relationship between vocabulary and reading comprehension in school-age children. Limited vocabulary knowledge can impact a student's reading achievement, as may be the case for school-age English Learners (ELs). This study aims to analyze the role of vocabulary in predicting reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ju, Zhongkui; Zhou, Yanling; delMas, Robert – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The present study aimed to examine the contributions of two separate Pinyin skills and oral vocabulary to Chinese word reading of 70 third graders in a U.S. Mandarin Immersion program where Pinyin was introduced at Grade 3. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that Pinyin initial-final spelling--the skill to spell Chinese syllables using Pinyin…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Vocabulary Development, Grade 3
Lee, Kathleen; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study investigated an emergent interaction between word reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge in the prediction of reading comprehension among French immersion students in Grades 2 and 3. A group of 66 students were tested on measures of phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, word reading accuracy, vocabulary, word reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Vocabulary Development, Prediction, Reading Comprehension
Chung, Sheila Cira; Koh, Poh Wee; Deacon, S. Hélène; Chen, Xi – Topics in Language Disorders, 2017
This longitudinal study investigated the predictors of word reading in English and French for 69 children in early total French immersion from first through third grade. The influence of phonological awareness, orthographic processing, and vocabulary in English and French on the achievement and growth of word reading in the 2 languages were…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Immersion Programs, Predictor Variables, Word Recognition
Knell, Ellen Shipley – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study investigated the efficacy of early English immersion in the Shi Da Fu Elementary School in Xi'an, China. Three hundred and fifty one students were tested in Grades 1-6. There were two main purposes that motivated this longitudinal and cross-sectional study. The first goal was to compare the L1 and L2 language and literacy…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Immersion Programs, Oral Language, Phonological Awareness
