Advancing early literacy learning for all children: Implications of the NELP report for dual-language learners
A discussion of the implications of the findings of National Early Literacy Panel for the early education of children who are dual language learners
Other
A case study examination of culturally relevant pedagogical practices for English-language learners in a pre-kindergarten classroom setting
A qualitative study of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in a prekindergarten classroom for English-language learners and an investigation of the ways 2 teachers promote academic success, cultural competence and critical consciousness, based on documentation from and observations of a classroom in Georgia
Reports & Papers
Child Care Pilot Project: Reference report
A profile of the children, families, and communities participating in the Child Care Pilot Project, a quasi-experimental evaluation of a preschool program that focuses on French language skills and francophone cultural awareness in Canada, based on child development assessments and parent and community representative surveys
Reports & Papers
Child Care Pilot Project: Reference report [Executive summary]
A summary of a profile of the children, families, and communities participating in the Child Care Pilot Project, a quasi-experimental evaluation of a preschool program that focuses on French language skills and francophone cultural awareness in Canada, based on child development assessments and parent and community representative surveys
Executive Summary
A comparison of teacher-related classroom conduct, social skills, and teacher-child relationship quality between preschool English learners and preschool English speakers
A study of the relationships between home languages, preschool classroom languages, and child gender and classroom conduct, social skills, teacher-child relationship quality, global classroom quality, and children's receptive language skills from a secondary analysis of data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project with 1034 caregivers, 743 teachers, and 1034 children
Reports & Papers
Connecting literacy and science to increase achievement for English language learners
An account of the use of science notebooks to aide kindergarten English language learners in the development of English science vocabularies
Other
Early education programs and children of immigrants: Learning each other's language
A discussion of federal, state, and local policies and initiatives that could ease the barriers to quality early childhood education and care that face children of immigrants
Other
The effect of extending the pre-kindergarten school day on literacy and language development for English language learners
A study of the relationship between extended-day bilingual preschool participation and both language and reading levels as well as reading gains in both Spanish and English of 41 bilingual prekindergarten children and a second study of the relationship of extended-day bilingual preschool participation and both receptive and expressive language skills at the end of prekindergarten for 121 children in a large suburban school district in Texas
Reports & Papers
Effects of a cross-linguistic storybook intervention on the second language development of two preschool English language learners
An account of changes in child-initiated utterances and responses to others in English during large circle reading time after a shared dialogic book reading experience using a Spanish translation of a book in the children's homes and an English edition of the same title in a Head Start center, for 2 children
Reports & Papers
Effects of a professional development program on classroom practices and outcomes for Latino dual language learners
A randomized, controlled study on the effects of the Nuestros Ninos
professional development program on classroom practices and child outcomes related to language development and early literacy skills in both English and Spanish for 55 teachers and 193 Latino dual language learners enrolled in the North Carolina More at Four Pre-Kindergarten Program
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The effects of summer reading programs on low-income English language learners' and low-income English L1s' reading achievement in grades 2-4
An experimental comparison of effect of 3 summer programs on the reading achievement of 94 disadvantaged English language learners (ELLs) and disadvantaged students who speak English as a first language (ELls) in 2nd through 4th grade, 1 group who received a weekly home visit and new books from the school staff, a second group of students who took 10 books home over the summer, and a control group who was given a reading log
Reports & Papers
Effects of a supplemental Spanish oral language program on sentence length, complexity, and grammaticality in Spanish-speaking children attending English-only preschools
A study the effects of a supplemental Spanish Oral Language program on Spanish sentence length, a subordination index, and grammar from 45 Spanish-speaking children attending English-only prekindergarten classrooms compared with 30 children in control classrooms, evaluated prior to, immediately after, and 4 months following intervention
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The effects of test translation on young English learners' mathematics performance
A comparison of the performance on mathematics assessments of Spanish-speaking students tested in Spanish and English-speaking students tested in English, based on data from 1,618 kindergarten students from 701 different classrooms in 294 schools
Reports & Papers
ELL preschoolers' English vocabulary acquisition from storybook reading
A study of the effect of the provision of rich definitions of inserted targeted vocabulary during storybook reading on preschooler English Language Learners' English vocabulary acquisition within a sample of 80 4- and 5-year-old children of immigrants whose native language is Portugese in 6 preschool classrooms
Reports & Papers
Enhancing learning of children from diverse language backgrounds: Mother tongue-based bilingual or multilingual education in the early years
An exploration of the use of bilingual or multilingual early childhood programs to aid in the preservation of native languages between generations, based on a review of literature on second language acquisition by young children
Literature Review
Enhancing learning of children from diverse language backgrounds: Mother tongue-based bilingual or multilingual education in the early years [Executive summary]
A summary of an exploration of the use of bilingual or multilingual early childhood programs to aid in the preservation of native languages between generations, based on a review of literature on second language acquisition by young children
Executive Summary
Enhancing teaching practices to improve language and literacy skills for Latino dual-language learners
A summary of a randomized, controlled study on the effects of the Nuestros Ninos professional development program on classroom practices and child outcomes related to language development and early literacy skills in both English and Spanish for 55 teachers and 193 Latino dual language learners enrolled in the North Carolina More at Four Pre-Kindergarten Program
Fact Sheets & Briefs
An experimental study comparing English-only and Transitional Bilingual Education on Spanish-speaking preschoolers’ early literacy development
An examination of the effect of instructional language on English language learners' Spanish and English literacy development from an experiment with 31 Spanish speaking preschoolers randomly assigned to two Head Start classrooms differing only in the language of instruction
Reports & Papers
From home to school: Bridging the language gap in Mauritian preschools
An analysis of the role of preschool in the preparation of 4- and 5 year-old Creole-speaking children for English-speaking primary school from observations and questionnaire responses of 15 teachers in seven preschools in Mauritius
Reports & Papers
The instructional and emotional quality of parent-child book reading and Early Head Start children's learning outcomes
A study of the relationships among infants' and toddlers' cognitive, expressive, and auditory communication scores and score change over 8 months and both extra-textual talk and emotional qualities of parent behavior during shared book reading and a study of the statistical interactions between emotional quality, extra-textual talk, and differences observed in families speaking English and Spanish based on data from 81 parents and their children in home-based Early Head Start programs in rural counties in the Midwest
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Interactive dynamic assessment with children learning EFL in kindergarten
An exploratation of an interactive dynamic assessment of English used for common social interactions with 51 3 or 4 year old children in an urban bilingual kindergarten in China
Reports & Papers
Language and literacy development for English language learners in preschool
A discussion of the language and literacy development of bilingual preschool learners and strategies for teachers to address the needs of English language learners in Early Reading First classrooms
Other
Language immersion programs for young children?: Yes . . . but proceed with caution
A discussion of the challenges of early second language acquisition and recommondations for a high quality language immersion program for young children
Other
Multilingualism, mathematics achievement and instructional language policy
A multi-state study of the relationship between mathematical skills and teacher-rated attention ability of bilingual children and a study of the relationships between achievement patterns and English immersion policies at the state level as well as children's language background
Reports & Papers
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
A discussion of the early language learning and education of immigrant and English language learner students 3 to 8 years old in the context of current education policy
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