Some Factors That Affect the Success of ESL High School Students

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 532-547

  Derwing, Tracey M ^a   DeCorby, Emilie ^a   Ichikawa, Julia ^a   Jamieson, Kama ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040439883     PISSN: 00084506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.55.4.532     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Alberta Education (1997). Jurisdiction profile report, selected tables, 0018, Edmonton Catholic Regional Division No. 40. Edmonton, AB: Alberta Education.
2. Au, K.H., & Mason, J.M. (1983). Cultural congruence in classroom participation structures: Achieving a balance of rights. Discourse Processes, 6, 145-167.
3. Blum, I.H., Koskinen, P.S., Tennant, N., Parker, E.M., Straub, M., & Curry, C. (1995). Using audiotaped books to extend classroom literacy instruction into the homes of second-language learners. Journal of Reading Behavior, 27, 535-563.
4. Collier, V.P. (1989). How long? A synthesis of research on academic achievement in a second language. TESOL Quarterly, 23, 509-531.
5. Cummins, J. (1981). Age on arrival and immigrant second language learning in Canada: A reassessment. Applied Linguistics, 11, 132-149.
6. Cummins, J. (1994). From coercive to collaborative relations of power in the teaching of literacy. In B.M. Ferdman, R. Weber, & A.G. Ramirez (Eds.), Literacy across languages and cultures (pp. 295-331). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
7. Early, M. (1992). Aspects of becoming an academically successful ESL student. In B. Burnaby & A. Cumming (Eds.), Sociopolitical aspects of ESL (pp. 265-275). Toronto: OISE Press.
8. Fitzgerald, J. (1995). English-as-a-second-language reading instruction in the United States: A research review. Journal of Reading Behavior, 27, 115-152.
9. Gardner, S., Polyzoi, E., & Rampaul, Y. (1996). Individual variables, literacy history, and ESL progress among Kurdish and Bosnian immigrants. TESL Canada Journal, 14, 1-20.
10. Goldstein, T. (1997). Bilingual life in a multilingual high school classroom: Teaching and learning in Cantonese and English. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 53, 356-372.
11. Kubota, R. (1998). Voices from the margin: Second and foreign language teaching approaches from minority perspectives. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 54, 394-412.
12. Martin-Jones, M. (1989). Language education in the context of linguistic diversity: Differing orientations in educational policy making in Britain. In J.H. Esling (Ed.), Multicultural education and policy: ESL in the 1990's. (pp. 36-58). Toronto, ON: OISE Press.
13. Mohan, B. (1986). Language and content. Don Mills, ON: Addison-Wesley.
14. O'Malley, J., & Chamot, A. (1990). Learning strategies in second language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
15. Watt, D., & Roessingh, H. (1994). ESL dropout: The myth of educational equity. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 3, 283-296.
16. Zanger, V.V. (1994). 'Not joined in': The social context of English literacy development for Hispanic youth. In B.M. Ferdman, R. Weber, & A.G. Ramirez (Eds.), Literacy across languages and cultures (pp. 171-198). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.