English and Spanish acquisition by Hispanic second graders in developmental bilingual programs: a 3-year longitudinal randomized study.

The authors studied a longitudinal English intervention in a 70/30 (Spanish/ English) developmental bilingual education (DBE) program (n = 302) and compared this model with a typical-practice, 80/20, late-exit transitional bilingual education program (n = 187) in terms of students' language and lite...

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Published in:Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 500 - 530
Main Authors: Tong F, Irby BJ, Lara-Alecio R, Mathes PG
Format: clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Nov2008
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