PSYC 341 Study Guide - Longitudinal Study, Effective Schools, Cooperative Learning

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 341
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Research on reading and writing in dual-language programs. : studies on the reading and writing development of both english learners and english-only students in two-way programs. Importance: the research goes beyond reporting scores on achievement tests and provides detailed descriptions of student"s actual reading and writing performance in both english and. They found that english learners developed high-level reading and writing skills in both languages, meeting or exceeding grade-level norms. The achievement gaps between english learners and english only students were narrowed at least by grade five. Writing scores of english learners in english and spanish were similar at all time points. All english essays were comparable, especially in grades five and six. In a longitudinal study, english learners who began kindergarten with fairly low vocabulary in. Spanish made substantial gain to above average by grade three: furthermore, their vocabulary scores for grade three highly correlated with reading achievement scores on norm-referenced achievement tests in both spanish and english.