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Project ELLA
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ELLA

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Promoting Bilingualism and Biliteracy One-Way Developmental Dual Language Model

Project ELLA
English Language and Literacy Acquisition

Project ELLA is a research project where 1152 predominately Spanish-speaking kindergarten students from 24 elementary schools in a large urban school district are studied over a four year period. Researchers compare Structured English Immersion and Transitional Bilingual models when delivered with the highest level of instructional quality and when delivered in a fashion reflecting more typical current practices. Qualitatively, an ethnographic approach is employed using interviews, questionnaires, surveys, and field notes from observations. The main goal is to clarify which instructional delivery model is most effective in helping native Spanish speaking children in acquiring English language and literacy.

Funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education
Date of award: October 15, 2003
Dates of project: October 1, 2003-September 30, 2008

Source: Project ELLA (English Language/Literacy Acquisition) Abstract pg 29