Closing the gap: Addressing the vocabulary needs of English‐language learners in bilingual and mainstream classrooms
Abstract
S Gaps in reading performance between Anglo and Latino children are associated with gaps in vocabulary knowledge. An intervention was designed to enhance fifth graders' academic vocabulary. The meanings of academically useful words were taught together with strategies for using information from context, from morphology, from knowledge about multiple meanings, and from cognates to infer word meaning. Among the principles underlying the...
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Title
Closing the gap: Addressing the vocabulary needs of English‐language learners in bilingual and mainstream classrooms
Published Date
Apr 6, 2004
Journal
Volume
39
Issue
2
Pages
188 - 215
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