How Long Does It Take English Learners to Attain Proficiency - eScholarship

By K. Hakuta. 2000

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English Language Learners and Academic Achievement: Revisiting the Threshold Hypothesis (2012, background): “Further, attending schools with higher SES and achievement profiles appears to have a positive impact on student English language development (Carhill et al., 2008; Hakuta et al., 2000).”
The Relation between Teacher Input and Lexical Growth of Preschoolers. (2011, background): “Based on prior research, one would not expect ELL preschoolers to catch up with English-speaking children in 1 year (Hakuta et al., 2000; Snow et al., 1998).”
Learning English Bilingually: Age of Onset of Exposure and Rate of Acquisition Among English Language Learners in a Bilingual Education Program (2005, methodology): “Like Cummins (1981) and Collier (1987), Hakuta, Butler, and Witt (2000) adopted “the rough distinction between oral English proficiency and academic English proficiency,” but emphasized that the dichotomy presents “a rather crude simplification of the theory of language proficiency” (p. 4).”
Supporting Young Children’s Vocabulary Growth: The Challenges, the Benefits, and Evidence-Based Strategies (2011, background): “However, Grace’s peers already have acquired many years of English study and it may take her as long as 7 years to become sufficiently fluent in English to work with academic content (Hakuta et al. 2000).”
Words as Tools: Learning Academic Vocabulary as Language Acquisition (2012, background): “Furthermore, Hakuta et al. (2000) studied two school districts in California and two in Canada to determine how long it takes for students with limited English proﬁciency to gain oral proﬁciency and academic language proﬁ-ciency in English.”