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Direct linkNirmal Ghimire; Kouider Mokhtari – Reading Psychology, 2025
This study uses 2018 PISA data to explore factors impacting 15-year-old U.S. students' reading performance. It finds teacher experience positively correlates with scores, while attributes like age negatively impact them. Home ICT access boosts achievement, but overabundance of devices proves counterproductive. Ethnicity, parental education, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, Reading Ability, Reading Fluency
Dennis S. Davis; Benjamin Kelcey; Corrie Dobis; Becky Huang; Jackie Relyea – Grantee Submission, 2025
We evaluated the impact of a small-group reading comprehension intervention taught by English as a second language (ESL) teachers to multilingual students classified as English learners (ML-ELs). Sixteen groups of students in grades 3-5 (n = 66) were randomly assigned to business-as-usual control or treatment conditions. Teachers implemented the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English Learners, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students
Aguilar, Gladys; Uccelli, Paola; Galloway, Emily Phillips – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
Academic language skills support mid-adolescents' comprehension of the language of school texts. To date, scarce research has explored associations between dual academic language skills and reading comprehension among mid-adolescent dual language immersion (DLI) students. This study examined individual differences in Spanish and English academic…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Pae, Hye K.; O'Brien, Beth – Reading Psychology, 2018
This study identified robust predictors of expressive skills in academic English as a foreign language. The participants were 92 Korean-speaking learners of English. The field test of the Pearson Test of English Academic was used as a secondary data analysis. Four communicative skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) and six enabling…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Expressive Language, Language Skills, English (Second Language)
Beal-Alvarez, Jennifer S.; Scheetz, Nanci A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2015
In deaf education, the sign language skills of teacher and interpreter candidates are infrequently assessed; when they are, formal measures are commonly used upon preparation program completion, as opposed to informal measures related to instructional tasks. Using an informal picture storybook task, the authors investigated the receptive and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Deafness, Deaf Interpreting
Uccelli, Paola; Galloway, Emily Phillips; Barr, Christopher D.; Meneses, Alejandra; Dobbs, Christina L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
Despite a long-standing awareness of academic language as a pedagogically relevant research area, the construct of academic-language proficiency, understood as a more comprehensive set of skills than just academic vocabulary, has remained vaguely specified. In this study, we explore a more inclusive operationalization of an academic-language…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Proficiency, Academic Discourse, Reading Comprehension
Butvilofsky, Sandra A.; Sparrow, Wendy; Roberson, Nathan D.; Hopewell, Susan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2017
This quasi-experimental study tested the efficacy of a research based biliterate reading strategy, Lotta Lara, that is part of a larger paired literacy instructional program. Its purpose was to investigate whether the biliterate reading strategy, which focuses on reading fluency, comprehension, and oracy through whole group instruction, impacted…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Literacy Education
Fitzgerald, Jill; Amendum, Steven J.; Relyea, Jackie Eunjung; Garcia, Sandra G. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2015
The present study investigated whether young Latino dual-language learners' 2-year English reading growth varied over time according to their initial overall oral English ability. We followed 41 Latino children for 2 years. We tested overall oral English at the beginning of the study and administered multiple curriculum-based reading assessments…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, English (Second Language), Reading Skills, Language Skills
