Scientific Studies of Reading · 2009 · 115 citations · 63 references
Second Language LearningPrior Phonological AwarenessMultilingualismLanguage DevelopmentLanguage EducationEarly Childhood LanguageBilingual Language DevelopmentSpanish Phonological AwarenessLanguage LearningPhonologySecond Language AcquisitionSpanish Second Language AcquisitionChild LanguageLanguage AcquisitionBilingualismLanguage StudiesHealth SciencesPhonological AwarenessForeign Language LearningBilingual EducationBilingual PhonologyLetter KnowledgeSpanish VocabularyForeign Language AcquisitionSpanishLinguisticsBilingual Phonological Awareness
Theories concerning the development of phonological awareness place special emphasis on lexical and orthographic knowledge. Given the large degree of variability in preschool classrooms that house Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELL), this study controlled for classroom effects by removing classroom means and covariances based on 158 children from 40 classrooms. Path analyses of the child-level covariance matrices tested the extent to which vocabulary and letter knowledge in each language predicted growth in English and Spanish phonological awareness of 130 preschool-age, Spanish-speaking ELLs. Results supported cross-linguistic effects of prior phonological awareness and Spanish vocabulary in the development of bilingual phonological awareness. Implications for theory, instruction, and research methods are discussed.
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Technometrics · 2006 · 5K citations
Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Generalizability Theory, Education +21