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Moran, Christine E.; Senseny, Karlen – Cogent Education, 2016
American students typically attend kindergarten at the chronological age (CA) of five and currently with the implementation of Common Core State Standards, there are expectations that children learn how to read in order to meet these academic standards, despite whether or not they are developmentally ready. This mixed methods study examined age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Emergent Literacy, Mixed Methods Research, Young Children
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Rimikis, Stacey; Smiljanic, Rajka; Calandruccio, Lauren – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine sentence-recognition performance for a large, diverse group of nonnative speakers of English on the recently developed Basic English Lexicon (BEL) sentence materials and to determine whether BEL sentence lists are equated in difficulty for this population. Method: The BEL sentences were presented…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary, Sentences