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Phillips, Catherine Anne; Heerman, Charles E. – 1979
A cloze test was administered to 210 seventh grade students of low socioeconomic status to determine whether dialect and second language interfered with adolescents' use of print language during the process of silent reading. The population was comprised of black, Chicano, and white students. Based on the exact cloze scores, 24 triples were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language)
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Gonzalez, Phillip C.; Elijah, David V. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
In a study of developmental reading behaviors, errors of 75 Spanish-English bilingual students (grades 2-9) on the McLeod GAP Comprehension Test were categorized in an attempt to ascertain a pattern of language difficulties. Contrary to previous research, bilingual readers minimally used native language cues in reading second language materials.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education