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Learning about Learning Disabilities, fourth edition, continues to provide equal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities. It presents 80% new material, keeping the chapters up to date in this fast-moving field.

A total of 104 six-year-old children belonging to 4 groups (English monolinguals, Chinese-English bilinguals, French-English bilinguals, Spanish-English bilinguals) were compared on 3 verbal tasks and 1 nonverbal executive control task to examine the generality of the bilingual effects on developmen

Although the research literature regarding language growth trajectories is burgeoning, the shape and direction of English Language Learners' (ELLs) language growth trajectories are largely not known.

This paper addresses literacy instruction of ELs as a shared responsibility among teachers across disciplines, as well as curriculum developers, textbook writers, assessment specialists, teacher educators, administrators, researchers, policy makers, and others.

This report summarizes key findings drawn from the literature on promising practices that all teachers can employ when working with ELs and the degree to which that research is integrated into the preparation, certification, and evaluation of teachers as a means for improving educational outcomes fo

Research from interactionist second language acquisition and sociocultural theoretical perspectives shows that referential questions are important for learning, but also, that they can be difficult for English language learners (ELLs) to understand and produce answers to.