A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of English Language Learners' Reading Comprehension in English and Spanish

Autor/inn/en	Nakamoto, Jonathan; Lindsey, Kim A.; Manis, Franklin R.
Titel	A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of English Language Learners' Reading Comprehension in English and Spanish
Quelle	In: Scientific Studies of Reading, 12 (2008) 4, S.351-371 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1088-8438
Schlagwörter	Reading Comprehension; Oral Language; Second Language Learning; Correlation; Reading Skills; English (Second Language); Bilingual Education; Elementary School Students; Evaluation; Decoding (Reading); Spanish; Phonological Awareness; Listening Comprehension; Gray Oral Reading Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseverstehen; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Korrelation; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Evaluierung; Dekodierung; Spanisch; Hörverständnis
Abstract	This study investigated the associations of oral language and reading skills with a sample of 282 Spanish-speaking English language learners across 3 years of elementary school. In the 3rd grade, the English and Spanish decoding measures formed two distinct but highly related factors, and the English and Spanish oral language measures formed two factors that showed a small positive correlation between them. The decoding and oral language factors were used to predict the sample's English and Spanish reading comprehension in the 6th grade. The decoding and oral language factors were both significant predictors of reading comprehension in both languages. The within-language effects were larger than the cross-language effects and the cross-language effects were not significant after accounting for the within-language effects. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10