Orly Lipka|Linda S. Siegel
The Development of Reading Skills in Children With English as a Second Language
University of British Columbia|University of British Columbia
abstract one goal longitudinal study examine whether predictors reading skills grade 3 would differ english second language esl students native englishspeaking l1 students phonological processing syntactic awareness memory spelling word reading lexical access skills assessed kindergarten grade 3 results indicated kindergarten esl group significantly lower scores phonological processing syntactic awareness spelling memory sentences tasks however grade 3 esl group performed similar way l1 group except syntactic awareness task combination two kindergarten measures memory sentences oral cloze combination phonological processing letter identification contributed equally predicting l1 students wordreading skills however esl students letter identification phonological processing made much larger contributions predicting grade 3 reading ability another goal study assess procedures used identify reading disability esl l1 student sample performance two measuresletter identification phonological awareness kindergartenpredicted whether students would classified grade 3 risk typical reading development esl l1 groups esl children developed strong reading skills status esl speakers put risk reading difficulties grade 3 esl students particular risk reading difficulties 4 years canadian schooling adequate balanced literacy program acknowledgments research supported grant natural science engineering research council canada l siegel thank fran blake robin brayne lorna bennett heather calder audrey hobbsjohnson larry johnson laurie mcdonald jay merilees cathy molinski pam ottley linda pearson ann tarves mary tennant brian ward rochelle watts anne woodcock principals teachers parents students north vancouver school district support participation study furthermore thank professor bruno zumbo valuable support insight data analyses process notes n 76 b n 128 p 05 p 05 n 268 b n 703 p 05 p 01 p 001 p 001 p 01 p 001 n 703 b n 128 p 05 p 01 p 001