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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Reexamining Identification and Reclassification of English Language Learners: A Critical Discussion of Select State Practices
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Mahoney, Kate S.; MacSwan, Jeff – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
In this article, the authors report select results of a national survey of state requirements and recommendations regarding identification and reclassification of English Language Learners (ELLs) conducted in academic year 2001-2002, called the "Survey of State Policies for Identification and Reclassification of Limited English Proficient…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, State Surveys, Identification, English (Second Language)
Learning English Bilingually: Age of Onset of Exposure and Rate of Acquisition among English Language Learners in a Bilingual Education Program
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MacSwan, Jeff; Pray, Lisa – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
This article asks whether children enrolled in a bilingual education program learn English in a reasonable amount of time, and whether older children learn English faster than younger children. Children (N = 89) were found to achieve parity with native English speakers in a range of 1 to 6.5 years and in an average of 3.31 years on measures of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
Do Some School-Age Children Have No Language? Some Problems of Construct Validity in the Pre-LAS Espanol.
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MacSwan, Jeff; Rolstad, Kellie; Glass, Gene V. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2002
Analysis of a dataset of 38,887 Spanish-speaking children aged 4-6 who took the Pre-Language Assessment Scales Espanol indicates serious concerns with test validity. The "non-non" label--nonverbal in both Spanish and English--may be an artifact of poor assessment. Policies requiring routine oral native-language assessment of language-minority…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Early Childhood Education, Hispanic American Students, Language Proficiency