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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Language Minority"”.
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Educational Leaders Serving Language Minority Students (1965-2001)
… three legislations that affected education for language</p><p>minority students. The research starts with a historical overview of the foundation of the</p><p>United States and the education of the non-English speaking population. It examines the</p><p>conditions that led to the first Bilingual …
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Successful Involvement of Language Minority Familties in Secondary Classrooms
… is to explore some of the factors that prevent a language minority (LM) family member from being involved, and how schools and school personnel can help LM parents and families become more involved. Secondary teachers can implement simple ways to encourage involvement. Included in the second part …
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Core French in Eastern Ontario: a language-minority student's experience
… conducted to learn about the experiences of one language-minority student learning French in a core French class in Eastern Ontario. In-class observations and interviews with the language-minority learner (LML), his guardian, his teachers and principal were conducted over a six-week period. The …
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Language Minority Learners' Spanish-Influenced Spelling Errors and Morphological Knowledge
… has demonstrated that Spanish as a heritage language encourages predictable spelling errors as language-minority (LM) learners apply Spanish phoneme-grapheme correspondence rules to scaffold their emerging English spelling skills. These Spanish-influenced (SI) errors fade by around fourth …
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Comparison of quiet and outgoing language minority students through journal writing
<p>Outgoing students have the advantage over quiet students in oral class participation. Our problem was to determine whether this relationship was the same in the medium of writing by studying differences in quantity and quality of writing between a quiet and an outgoing group.</p>
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Comparison of quiet and outgoing language minority students through journal writing
<p>Outgoing students have the advantage over quiet students in oral class participation. Our problem was to determine whether this relationship was the same in the medium of writing by studying differences in quantity and quality of writing between a quiet and an outgoing group.</p>
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TOWARD A DATA LITERACY ASSESSMENT THAT IS FAIR FOR LANGUAGE MINORITY STUDENTS
… and support future practices regardless of their language backgrounds. I initiated the study with two research questions: a) How valid is a newly developed assessment to measure middle-grade students’ data literacy? b) How fairly does the new assessment measure data literacy regardless of …
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Literacy Learning Experiences of Four Language Minority Students: The Principles of Importance
… First, literacy progress is impacted by language programs provided at school and parental literacy support at home. Second, the parents' views or beliefs concerning first and second language acquisition have an impact on the language development of their children. Finally, diverse …
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A Longitudinal Study of Language Minority Students' Academic Achievement and Transitional Bilingual Education Program Effectiveness on Mainstream Education
… number of children in the family, the parents' language used at work, and the degree to which the parents studied the English language before entering the United States. The findings also suggest that mainstream education can be an enriching and successful experience if certain predictors of …
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Language Minority Students at Community College: How Do Developmental Education and English as a Second Language Affect Their Educational Outcomes?
… of a postsecondary degree, particularly second language challenges that can inhibit their success in college-level coursework. This dissertation seeks to provide some of the first evidence on the impact of developmental English and English as a Second Language (ESL) courses on the educational …
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A Causal Analysis of Achievement Models for Language Minority Students in the United States: A Linear Structural Relations (Lisrel) Approach
… validity of a theoretical model linking ethnic-language dominance, socio-economic status, and parental involvement to cognitive achievement and psychological orientation. An unbalanced, multi-group sample was randomly selected from the 1980 High School and Beyond national database. A total of …
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The Effect of Social Skills on Academic Achievement of Linguistically Diverse Elementary Students: Concurrent and Longitudinal Analysis
Due to the difference in cultures and languages, language minority students, who are mostly immigrant students, are confronted with more demands than are mainstream students (Ogden, Sorlie, & Hagen, 2007). Further, when they are limited in English proficiency (LEP), they tend to perform at lower …
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Teachers' perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism: the effect on language arts pedagogy
Few studies on English language learners (ELLs) focus on teachers’ perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism and describe the impact of those perceptions on language arts pedagogy. While numerous studies have explored the teaching of diverse students and the negative effects of standardized …
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