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Direct linkLo, Yuen Yi; Murphy, Victoria A. – Language and Education, 2010
The aim of this study was to investigate vocabulary knowledge and growth across two different language-learning programmes in Hong Kong. The two programmes compared were English immersion programmes (IM) and regular English second-language programmes (RL2). While previous research has identified an overall advantage to IM with respect to language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, English (Second Language), Comparative Analysis
Haneda, Mari – Language and Education, 2009
Drawing on interviews, observations, and videorecorded data collected in a "sheltered" grade 7 social studies class in a Mid-western US city, the current paper explores the learning opportunities provided for English language learners (ELLs) and the discursive strategies used by a teacher, consciously or unconsciously, to help her students become…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 7, English (Second Language), Social Studies
Download full textPittman, Pamela; Honchell, Barbara – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2014
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how literature discussion affects middle school struggling readers. The focus was on 16 middle school struggling readers in a rural Title I school in the southeastern United States. Findings indicated that (a) literature discussion increased student enjoyment of reading, and (b) students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties, Rural Education, Literature Appreciation
Turner, K. C. Nat; Way, Kate; Gray, Robin R. R. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2013
This article analyzes the potential of a series of Youth Action Coalition's (YAC) Arts-for-Change (AfC) youth programs for literacy and identity development, as well as for engaging youth in addressing issues of social justice. Drawing primarily on transcripts of interviews, surveys, and participant-observation fieldnotes inventorying changes in…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Evaluation, Social Justice, Multiple Literacies
