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Article: The Crosslinguistic Role of Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency on Reading Growth in Spanish and English
- Article from:
- Bilingual Research Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright National Association for Bilingual Education Spring 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract
The Office of Civil Rights (2001) and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001(Antunez, 2003) mandate that language proficiency and academic achievement be measured in order to provide equal educational opportunities to English language learners and have an accountability system for their language and academic growth. The Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) construct is often cited in the literature as a milestone to second-language (L2) development and as having a significant relationship with academic achievement in the L2. Studies have typically explored the relationship between the primary language (L1) and the L2 separately with academic achievement. Language ...