Dual Language Profiles in Spanish-Speaking English Learners.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and describe latent dual language profiles in a large sample of school-age Spanish-English bilingual children designated as English learners (ELs) by their school district. Method: Data for this study include 847 Spanish-speaking ELs from kindergart...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 65; no. 7; pp. 2608 - 2629 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=158106600&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 158106600 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2022 vid: 65 iid: 7 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 158106600 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00447 ppf: 2608 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.5MB tig: atl: Dual Language Profiles in Spanish-Speaking English Learners. aug: au: Pumpki Lei Su Rojas, Raúl Iglesias, Aquiles affil: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Health Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson su: Multilingualism School children Statistics English language Phonological awareness Speech evaluation Spanish language Descriptive statistics Intraclass correlation Research funding Data analysis software Data analysis Secondary analysis Evaluation sug: subj: Multilingualism School children Statistics English language Phonological awareness Speech evaluation Spanish language Descriptive statistics Intraclass correlation Research funding Data analysis software Data analysis Secondary analysis Evaluation ab: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and describe latent dual language profiles in a large sample of school-age Spanish-English bilingual children designated as English learners (ELs) by their school district. Method: Data for this study include 847 Spanish-speaking ELs from kindergarten to third grade. Spanish and English narrative retell language samples were collected from all participants. Four oral language measures were calculated in Spanish and English, including the subordination index, moving average type-token ratio, narrative structure scheme (NSS), and words per minute using Systematic Analysis of Language Transcript. These indicator measures were used in a latent profile analysis to identify dual language profiles. Results: The optimal model represents a four-profile solution, including a Spanish-dominant group (average Spanish, low English), an English-dominant group (low Spanish, average English), and two balanced groups (a balancedaverage group and a balanced-high group). Additionally, participants displayed uneven performance across language domains and distinct patterns of unique strength or weakness in a specific domain in one of their two languages. Conclusions: Findings from this study highlight the large variability in English and Spanish oral language abilities in school-age Spanish-speaking ELs and suggest that a dichotomous classification of ELs versus English-proficient students may not be sufficient to determine the type of educational program that best fits a specific bilingual child's need. These findings highlight the need to assess both languages across multiple language domains to paint a representative picture of a bilingual child's language abilities. The dual language profiles identified may be used to guide the educational program selection process to improve the congruence among the linguistic needs of an individual child, teachers' use of instructional language, and the goals of the educational program (i.e., improving English proficiency vs. supporting dual language development). pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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