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The Challenge of Academic Language
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)
A Research Agenda for Educational Linguistics
(Wiley Blackwell, 2008)
Assessing Reading Comprehension in Bilinguals
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)
A new measure of reading comprehension, the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension (DARC), designed to reflect central comprehension processes while minimizing decoding and language demands, was pilot tested. We ...
What Counts as Literacy in Early Childhood?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006)
Issues of literacy development are a major source of worry to American educators.
Worries about whether U.S. children read well enough emerge every time results of an international comparison are published. Many of the ...
Experimental Effects of Word Generation on Vocabulary, Academic Language, and Perspective Taking in High Poverty Middle Schools
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Time to Act, a 2009 report of the Carnegie Corporation’s Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy, concludes that U.S. students are ill-prepared for the literacy challenges of 21st century higher education, employment, and ...
The Interactional Origins of Foreigner Talk: Municipal Employees and Foreign Workers
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 1981)
La metodología RETAMHE y el proyecto CHILDES : breviario para la codificación y análisis del lenguaje infantil
(Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias, 1999)
En este artículo se investigan algunas cuestiones metodológicas relativas al estudio del lenguaje infantil y se presenta la instrumentación y el software desarrollados en el proyecto CHILDES (Sistema de Intercambio de Datos ...
The Importance of Reading Difficulties and Family in Teachers' Decisions to Retain Children: A Case Study in Costa Rica
(University of Oviedo, 2005)
Grade retention in many countries is the de facto remediation policy for children who have academic difficulties in first grade. For example, 14.9 percent of first graders repeated in Costa Rica in 2002. This study describes ...
Evaluating the impact of different early literacy interventions on low-income Costa Rican kindergarteners
(Elsevier BV, 2006)
Grade retention has been the de facto policy for children with academic difficulties in many Latin American countries [Schiefelbein, E., & Wolff, L. (1992). Repetition and inadequate achievement in Latin America’s primary ...
Maternal Correlates of Growth in Toddler Vocabulary Production in Low-Income Families
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
This study investigated predictors of growth in toddlers’ vocabulary production between the ages of 1 and 3 years by analyzing mother – child communication in 108 low-income families. Individual growth modeling was used ...