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Direct linkWawire, Brenda Aromu; Liang, Xinya; Piper, Benjamin – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
The present study examined the mediating role of text reading fluency in reading comprehension in English and Kiswahili utilizing longitudinal data from 628 first- and second-grade children from multilingual contexts in Kenya. We employed path analysis to explore the mediating role of text reading fluency on decoding and reading comprehension in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, English, Reading Fluency
Piper, Benjamin; Schroeder, Leila; Trudell, Barbara – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
Reading research has shown that variable relationships exist between measures of oral reading fluency and reading comprehension, depending on whether the language of the text is the reader's first language or an additional language. This paper explores this phenomenon, using reading assessment data for 2,000 Kenyan children in two or three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
Piper, Benjamin; Destefano, Joseph; Kinyanjui, Esther M.; Ong'ele, Salome – Journal of Educational Change, 2018
Many successful piloted programs fail when scaled up to a national level. In Kenya, which has a long history of particularly ineffective implementation after successful pilot programs, the Tusome national literacy program--which receives funding from the United States Agency for International Development--is a national-level scale-up of previous…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Benchmarking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Piper, Benjamin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The linguistic interdependence hypothesis (Cummins, 1979, 2000) states that children's second-language (L2) proficiency is, to some extent, a function of their first-language (L1) competence. Previous studies have examined this hypothesis with focus on a unidirectional relation from L1 to L2. In the present study, we examined…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Reading Skills, Longitudinal Studies, African Languages
Download full textKim, Young-Suk Grace; Piper, Benjamin – Grantee Submission, 2019
The linguistic interdependence hypothesis (Cummins, 1979, 2000) states that children's second-language (L2) proficiency is, to some extent, a function of their first-language (L1) competence. Previous studies have examined this hypothesis with focus on a unidirectional relation from L1 to L2. In the present study, we examined…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Reading Skills, Second Language Learning, Native Language
Piper, Benjamin; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons – Language Testing, 2016
Despite rapid growth in literacy-related programmes and evaluation in sub-Saharan Africa, little critical attention has been paid to the relevance of assumptions that underlie existing assessment methods. This study focuses on the issue of timing in the assessment of oral reading fluency, a critical component of successful reading (Chard, Vaughn,…
Descriptors: Role, Language Tests, Timed Tests, Foreign Countries
Trudell, Barbara; Piper, Benjamin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
Language policy is generally seen as a national-level decision regarding which languages the state will support, and in which public domains. However, the reality is that language policy plays out at regional and local levels as well. In fact, it could be argued that the most important instantiations of language policy are those which directly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Educational Policy, Literacy Education
