English vocabulary trajectories of students whose parents speak a language other than English: Steep trajectories and sharp summer setback

Reading and Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1113-1141

  Lawrence, Joshua Fahey ^a,b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

English language development; Independent reading; Summer loss; Urban adolescent students; Vocabulary learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860364693     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-011-9305-z     Document Type: Article

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