Deconstructing and reconstructing cross-language transfer in bilingual reading development: An interactive framework

SC Chung, X Chen, E Geva - Journal of neurolinguistics, 2019 - Elsevier
The concept of cross-language transfer is central in bilingual reading development. This is
because researchers and educators search for the conditions that allow learning that takes …

Within-and cross-language relations between oral language proficiency and school outcomes in bilingual children with an immigrant background: A meta-analytical …

MJL Prevoo, M Malda, J Mesman… - Review of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Sixteen meta-analyses were conducted to examine relations of typically developing
bilingual immigrant-background children's oral language proficiency in their first and second …

Predictors of reading comprehension for struggling readers: The case of Spanish-speaking language minority learners.

J Mancilla-Martinez, NK Lesaux - Journal of educational …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
This longitudinal study examined the process of English reading comprehension at age 11
years for 173 low-achieving Spanish-speaking children. The influence of growth rates, from …

The role of vocabulary depth in predicting reading comprehension among English monolingual and Spanish–English bilingual children in elementary school

CP Proctor, RD Silverman, JR Harring, C Montecillo - Reading and Writing, 2012 - Springer
The present study investigated the role of vocabulary depth in reading comprehension
among a diverse sample of monolingual and bilingual children in grades 2–4. Vocabulary …

Growth and predictors of change in English language learners' reading comprehension

F Farnia, E Geva - Journal of Research in Reading, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study modelled reading comprehension trajectories in Grades 4 to 6 English language
learners (ELLs= 400), with different home language backgrounds, and in English …

The impact of mother tongue instruction on the development of biliteracy: Evidence from Somali–Swedish bilinguals

N Ganuza, C Hedman - Applied Linguistics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
This study investigates if participation in mother tongue instruction (henceforth MTI) impacts
the biliteracy proficiency of young bilinguals, drawing on examples from Somali–Swedish …

Designing for diversity: The role of reading strategies and interactive vocabulary in a digital reading environment for fifth-grade monolingual English and bilingual …

B Dalton, CP Proctor, P Uccelli, E Mo… - Journal of Literacy …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined the relative contribution of reading comprehension strategies and
interactive vocabulary in Improving Comprehension Online (ICON), a universally designed …

Oral reading fluency and comprehension in Kenya: Reading acquisition in a multilingual environment

B Piper, L Schroeder, B Trudell - Journal of Research in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Reading research has shown that variable relationships exist between measures of oral
reading fluency and reading comprehension, depending on whether the language of the text …

Early oral language and later reading development in Spanish-speaking English language learners: Evidence from a nine-year longitudinal study

MJ Kieffer - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2012 - Elsevier
Using nationally-representative, longitudinal data on a cohort of Spanish-speaking English
language learners in the US, this study investigated the extent to which early oral language …

The role of oral language skills in reading and listening comprehension of text: A comparison of monolingual (L1) and bilingual (L2) speakers of English language

S Babayiğit - Journal of Research in Reading, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The study examined the role of oral language skills in reading comprehension and listening
comprehension levels of 125 monolingual (L1) and bilingual (L2) English‐speaking learners …