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ERIC Number: EJ1229527
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 22
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0553
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Oral Language Intervention in Norwegian Schools Serving Young Language-Minority Learners: A Randomized Trial
Heller, Mia C.; Lervåg, Arne; Grøver, Vibeke
Reading Research Quarterly, v54 n4 p531-552 Oct-Dec 2019
In this randomized trial study, the authors examined the efficacy of a practitioner partnership language intervention addressing oral language learning (expressive and receptive) in young language-minority learners from multiple-language groups in Norway. Resource teachers in 16 elementary schools implemented the intervention in the first and second grades, delivering a total of 64 thirty-minute sessions over eight consecutive weeks. With a mean age of 6 years 3.34 months, 137 students were randomly allocated to an intervention group or a waiting-list control group, with the latter group receiving the intervention after posttest 1. Five assessments of oral language skills were conducted before the intervention, immediately following it, and four months later. The intervention group showed significant improvements in various oral language skills compared with the waiting-list control group. There were no significant differences between the groups at the four-month follow-up when the waiting-list control group received the intervention. The program was successful in enhancing oral language skills in young language-minority learners.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education; Grade 1; Primary Education; Grade 2
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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