Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth

This volume reports the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. The formal charge to the panela distinguished group of expert researchers in reading, language, bilingualism, research methods, and educationwas to identify, assess, and synthesize research on the education of language-minority children and youth with respect to their attainment of literacy. Funding for the project was provided to the Center for Applied Linguistics and SRI International by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences and the Office of English Language Acquisition, with additional funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development provided through the U.S. Department of Education.