Effects of a supplemental Spanish oral language program on sentence length, complexity, and grammaticality in Spanish-speaking children attending English-only preschools.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a supplemental Spanish language instruction program for children who spoke Spanish as their native language and were attending English-only preschool programs. Specifically, the study evaluated the program's effects on the children's S...
| Publicado en: | Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 3 - 14 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jan2010
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