Relationships among preschool English language learner’s oral proficiency in English, instructional experience and literacy development

Improving the General Language Skills of Second-Language Learners in Kindergarten: A Randomized Controlled Trial

“…Randomizing at the individual level allowed for this mix in linguistic backgrounds and varied experience with the second language between study participants. The children were assessed with Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices, sets A, Ab, and B (Raven, Court, & Raven, 1990). The raw score mean for children in the intervention group was 14.43 (SD D 3.97), and the raw score mean for children in the control group was 13.54 (SD D 3.65).…”

Response to a Review and Update on Developing Literacy in Second-language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth

“…Most of these studies focused on phonological awareness and phonics (Calhoon, Otaiba, Cihak, King, & Avalos, 2007;Denton, Wexler, Vaughn, & Bryan, 2008;Ehri, Dreyer, Flugman, & Gross, 2007;Giambo & McKinney, 2004;Gunn, Smolkowski, Biglan, Black, & Blair, 2005;Kamps et al, 2007;Lovett et al, 2008;McMaster, Kung, Han, & Cao, 2008;Roberts & Neal, 2004;Solari & Gerber, 2008;Swanson, Hodson, & Schommer-Aikins, 2005;Troia, 2004). Findings generally confirm those of the previous review: The same principles of systematic and explicit phonologically based interventions that undergird instruction for English-proficient students also appear to benefit English language learners' (ELLs) literacy development.…”

Predicting School Readiness for Low-Income Children with Disability Risks Identified Early

“…Items are organized into two subscales: Book Knowledge and Book Comprehension. Spearman-Brown test-retest reliability was .91 (Roberts & Neal, 2004 Woodcock & Johnson , 1990) was used as a direct measure of children's ability to identify letters and words. The Woodcock-Muiioz-Revised Identificacion de Letras y Palabr as (Woodcock & Munoz-Sandoval, 1996) was used for children whose primary langu age was Spanish.…”