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Bilingual Phonological Awareness: Construct Validation in Grade 1 Spanish-Speaking English Learners
- Source :
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Grantee Submission . 2019. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This study investigated the dimensionality of bilingual phonological awareness (PA) in English and Spanish by replicating a kindergarten model in Grade 1, and presents alternatives to modeling clustered data. English and Spanish tasks were analyzed from previously collected samples totaling 1,586 first grade Spanish-speaking English learners. Four distinct approaches to confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models were examined: (a) uncentered student-level data, (b) student-level data centered at the classroom means, (c) classroom-level data, and (d) multilevel CFA. Results indicated that while the multilevel CFA provided the most comprehensive view of the data, the multi-level student-level estimates were not appreciably different from estimates based on student-level data centered at the classroom means, and multi-level classroom-level estimates were comparable to estimates based on the analysis of classroom means. Importantly, English and Spanish PA were statistically separable at the student-level, but minimally distinct (r= 0.86) and slightly less correlated than what has been reported for kindergarten (r=0.93). At the classroom level, the correlation was moderate (r=0.51), and substantially reduced compared to kindergarten (r=0.83). The distinction at the classroom-level between kindergarten and Grade 1 imply that instruction differentiates the abilities across languages at the classroom-level, but less so at the student-level. [This paper was published in "New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development" n166 p79-110 2019 (EJ1221842).]
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Grantee Submission
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- ED599978
- Document Type :
- Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20303