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A Study of Home Emergent Literacy Experiences of Young Latino English Learners
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Trainin, Guy; Wessels, Stephanie; Nelson, Ron; Vadasy, Patricia – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
This empirical study explored the home environment literacy practices of young Latino English learners and their families. The participants were 217 incoming Kindergarten Latino EL students and parents. The data collection included a completed HLEQ by the parents. In addition, children were administered the PPVT, the preLAS, the PALS-K screening,…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Hispanic Americans
Cognitive-Linguistic Foundations of Early Spelling Development in Bilinguals
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Yeong, Stephanie H. M.; Rickard Liow, Susan J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Developing spelling skills in English is a particularly demanding task for Chinese speakers because, unlike many other bilinguals learning English as a second language, they must learn two languages with different orthography as well as phonology. To disentangle socioeconomic and pedagogical factors from the underlying cognitive-linguistic…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Spelling, Phonology, Achievement Tests