Catching Up or Falling Behind? Initial English Proficiency, Concentrated Poverty, and the Reading Growth of Language Minority Learners in the United States

By Michael J. Kieffer. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Language and Linguistics

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Knowledge of words, knowledge about words: Dimensions of vocabulary in first and second language learners in sixth grade (2012, background): “disproportionately demonstrate difficulties with reading comprehension ( Kieffer, 2008, 2010; National Center for Educational Statistics, 2009).”
Improving Content Knowledge and Comprehension for English Language Learners: Findings From a Randomized Control Trial (2017, background): “…proficiency in English have academic trajectories similar to non-ELs, whereas students who enter school with limited English proficiency do not fare as well, demonstrating weaker learning trajectories that are quite divergent from their non-EL peers by the end of elementary school (Kieffer, 2008).”
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. (2014, background): “Kieffer (2008), for instance, found that language minority children in the United States who were profi cient in English at the beginning of kindergarten showed similar growth patterns to those of native speakers.”
Effective Academic Vocabulary Instruction in the Urban Middle School (2010, background): “(Kieffer, 2008; Nakamoto, Lindsey, & Manis, 2007).”
The Effectiveness and Ease of Implementation of an Academic Vocabulary Intervention for Linguistically Diverse Students in Urban Middle Schools (2010, background): “Differences in both vocabulary knowledge and reading outcomes between native speakers and language minority learners have been shown to widen over time (Kieffer, 2008; Nakamoto, Lindsey, & Manis, 2007).”
Efficacy of the Responsive Classroom Approach (2014, background): “Student poverty (VotrubaDrzal, 2006) and English language learner (ELL) status (Kieffer, 2008) needed to be considered given their relation to achievement.”
Investigating English reading comprehension growth in adolescent language minority learners: some insights from the simple view (2011, methodology): “Further, because previous work suggests that LM learners’ reading comprehension reaches a plateau during the middle school years ( Kieffer, 2008; Nakamoto et al., 2007), it is possible that LM learners’ linguistic comprehension and word reading skills may influence not only levels but also rates of”
Converging Trajectories (2011, methodology): “First and foremost, Kieffer (2008) examined performance only through the end of upper elementary school.”
Efficacy of supplemental phonics-based instruction for low-skilled kindergarteners in the context of language minority status and classroom phonics instruction. (2010, background): “Young children from low-income and nonnative-English-speaking backgrounds are considered at higher risk for reading difficulties (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998), and social inequalities in academic outcomes increase as children advance through the elementary grades (Entwisle, Alexander, & Olson, 1997”
The Effectiveness of Reading Interventions for English Learners (2016, result): “However, it differs from more recent research that found that language proficiency appears to affect early reading skills (D. Baker et al., 2013; Kieffer, 2008).”
The Importance of SES, Home and School Language and Literacy Practices, and Oral Vocabulary in Bilingual Children’s English Reading Development (2014, background): “However, this is generally not the case for text-related skills like comprehension and writing (August & Shanahan 2006; Kieffer, 2008), making it important to understand the factors that contribute to this development.”