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This study explores teachers’ first enactments of a set of theory-based curriculum materials designed to support academic language instruction. Specifically, this multiple case study looks at how six middle school English teachers in three US schools adapted the materials; each case includes a pair of teachers, one novice and one more experienced. All schools were located in the same district where a school performance measurement system was being used to publicly rank schools’ academic performance and growth. Multiple measures were used to look for evidence of adaptations and why teachers made adaptations. We found that all teachers adapted the curriculum, most often in response to either perceived student needs or district reform pressures. In two cases, patterns of adaptation differed by teacher experience; experienced teachers appeared better able to adapt curriculum materials to meet instructional goals. This pattern did not hold up at the third school, where teachers faced greater reform pressures. Taken together, these findings suggest that researchers should pay more attention to the role of school and district policy on teachers’ enactments of theory-based reforms. We conclude with guidance to researchers, instructional leaders and others interested in the potential of theory-based curricula as a lever for improving classroom instruction. 相似文献
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A study was conducted in a large Head Start organization that serves large numbers of Latino children in order to empirically describe the nature and quality of the classroom language learning environment. By observing 147 literacy-based lessons in 6 classrooms and surveying 167 teachers throughout the organization, we investigated the amount of teachers' use of extended discourse during literacy-based lessons, and when and how Spanish and/or English was used as the medium of communication. Research Findings: Only 22% of the 147 literacy-based lessons observed fostered extended discourse; the most commonly implemented lesson was characterized by a routine format of the teacher talking and the children listening. English was regarded as the language of instruction, whereas Spanish was used mostly to regulate behavior and emotions. By fitting multilevel models to the data, we found that teaching practice was relatively stable across the classrooms. Practice or Policy: More emphasis should be placed on professional training focused on supporting classroom language interactions that foster literacy development and on the use of language that best fosters and facilitates such extended discourse. 相似文献
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Connectives (e.g., although, meanwhile) carry abstract meanings and often signal key relationships between text ideas. This study explored whether understanding of connectives represents a unique domain of vocabulary knowledge that provides special leverage for reading comprehension, and whether the contribution of knowledge of connectives to reading comprehension differs for students from distinct language backgrounds. Understanding of connectives, word reading efficiency and breadth of vocabulary knowledge of 75 English language learners (ELLs) and 75 English‐only (EO) fifth graders were assessed. Hierarchical multiple regression techniques revealed that understanding of connectives explained a sizeable and significant portion of unique variance in comprehension beyond that explained by breadth of vocabulary knowledge when controlling for word reading efficiency. The magnitude of this relationship was larger for EO students than for ELLs. Findings indicate that connectives play an important role in comprehension, but that the strength of their influence varies by readers’ linguistic background. 相似文献
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Despite the growing body of research investigating the nature of text-reading fluency and its relationship to comprehension
among monolingual children, very little is known about text-reading fluency for language minority (LM) learners reading in
English. The present study investigated the nature of text-reading fluency—its relationship to reading comprehension and its
predictors—for 76 Spanish-speaking LM fifth graders. Text-reading fluency explained unique variance in reading comprehension
above and beyond word-reading fluency and oral language competencies, but its effect was not robust. The impact of text-reading
fluency on comprehension was moderated by an interaction such that only students with proficient text-reading fluency and well-developed oral language demonstrated skilled comprehension. Word-reading fluency and decoding skill were significant
predictors of text-reading fluency. The results suggest that existing assumptions about the relationship between text-reading
fluency and comprehension may not readily apply to LM learners. 相似文献
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Persistence of phonological processing deficits in college students with dyslexia who have age-appropriate reading skills 总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7
This study investigated the phonological processing skills of university students with dyslexia. Fifty-nine students participated in this study: 28 with reading disabilities based on recent psychological assessments and a history of early and persistent reading problems; and 31 controls. The two groups did not differ on estimates of verbal and nonverbal abilities. The dyslexia group performed significantly less well on standardized measures of reading and spelling. However, the dyslexia group scores on these measures fell within the average range. The main dependent variables were subsumed under three areas of phonological processing: phonological awareness, phonological recoding in lexical access, and phonological recoding in working memory. The control group performed significantly better on all phonological processing measures, particularly those measures involving accuracy and response times. Despite age-appropriate performances on standardized reading and spelling measures, phonological processing deficits persisted in the dyslexia group. These findings support the causal role of phonological awareness in the acquisition of reading skills and indicate that differences in phonological processing skills are still evident in a sample of university students with dyslexia compared a group matched on age and education. 相似文献
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This study examined the relationship between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in English among Spanish-speaking
English language learners (ELLs) followed from fourth through fifth grade. Students’ ability to decompose derived words while
reading was assessed using an experimental task. Multiple regression analyses were used to investigate the contribution of
performance on this task to reading comprehension above and beyond word reading skills, phonological awareness, and breadth
of vocabulary knowledge. The relationship between morphological awareness and reading comprehension was found to strengthen
between fourth and fifth grade, and in fifth grade, morphological awareness was found to be a significant predictor of reading
comprehension. The findings were robust across two measures of reading comprehension and two methods of scoring the experimental
task of morphological awareness, and thus support the inclusion of derivational morphology in a model of the English reading
comprehension of Spanish-speaking ELLs.
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In this longitudinal study, we examined the relationship between primary grade (K–2) Spanish and English language- and word-based skills and later English reading comprehension (RC) outcomes (Grades 5 and 8) among children (n = 148) from immigrant, Spanish-speaking, low-income homes in English instructional contexts since kindergarten entry. As expected, early skills, especially those in English, contributed to later RC outcomes. Most uniquely, we identified a developmental shift in the contribution of language- and word-based skills on students’ RC outcomes. Specifically, word-based skills were consistently predictive of Grade 5 RC outcomes, whereas the contribution of language-based skills emerged for Grade 8 RC outcomes. Finally, we also found that the relationship between early skills and later RC outcomes varied depending on students’ RC levels. These results underscore the increasingly important role that early language-based skills play for later English reading comprehension outcomes, and we discuss theoretical and practical implications of this work. 相似文献
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This study examined the effects of extra time on the reading comprehension performance of a heterogeneous group of adults
with reading disabilities. Sixty-four adults participated. A clinic that assesses learning disabilities identified 22 as reading
disabled, and 42 as normal readers. The 64 adults took a reading comprehension test under both timed and untimed conditions.
Other skills measured included vocabulary, word reading, non-word reading, spelling, arithmetic, and short-term memory. Under
timed conditions, there were significant differences between the participants with reading disabilities and the normally achieving
participants. All of the reading disabled participants in the present study benefited from extra time, but the normally achieving
readers performed similarly under the timed and untimed conditions. Further, in the untimed condition, the performance of
the individuals with a less severe reading disability was not significantly different that of the Average readers. The study
suggests that extra time during testing is an appropriate accommodation to help individuals begin to compensate for reading
disabilities. 相似文献
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This study investigated the influence of cognitive and linguistic skills on the reading comprehension performance of a group
of learners from diverse linguistic backgrounds. The study also compared the reading comprehension performance of grade 4
children who entered kindergarten with little or no experience with English (ESL) to that of a group of native English speakers.
Examiners administered various tasks of reading, language, and memory to the children in the study (n=480). The sample included three comprehension groups: (1) children with poor comprehension in the absence of word reading
difficulties (Poor Comprehenders; PC), (2) children with poor word reading and poor comprehension (Poor word Recognition and
comprehenders; PR), and (3) children with good word reading and comprehension abilities (Good Comprehenders; GC). Due to the
small sample size of PR reader group, no comparative analyses were conducted. However, the results indicated that within the
GC and PC groups there were no differences between the ESL and L1 children on measures of reading and phonological processing.
Further, within the GC and PC groups, on measures of syntactic awareness and verbal working memory, the ESL speakers performed
at significantly lower levels than the L1 speakers. 相似文献
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This study investigated the relation between teachers’ (N = 22) use of sophisticated and complex language in urban middle‐school classrooms and their students’ (mean age at pretest = 11.51 years; N = 782; 568 language minority and 247 English only) vocabulary knowledge. Using videotaped classroom observations, teachers’ speech was transcribed and coded for their total amount of talk, vocabulary usage, and syntactic complexity. Students’ vocabulary skills were assessed at the beginning and end of the school year. Results showed variation in students’ vocabulary skills and teachers’ language use. Hierarchical linear modeling techniques revealed that after controlling for classroom and school composition and students’ beginning‐of‐the‐year scores, students’ end‐of‐the‐year vocabulary skills were positively related to teachers’ use of sophisticated vocabulary and complex syntax, but not teachers’ total amount of talk. 相似文献