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The effect of a structured story reading intervention, story retelling and higher order thinking for English language and literacy acquisition
Author(s) -
Cruz de Quirós Ana M.,
LaraAlecio Rafael,
Tong Fuhui,
Irby Beverly J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of research in reading
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1467-9817
pISSN - 0141-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2010.01472.x
Subject(s) - narrative , psychology , reading (process) , literacy , intervention (counseling) , linguistics , neuroscience of multilingualism , first language , mathematics education , pedagogy , neuroscience , philosophy , psychiatry
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of structured story reading intervention, S tory re T elling and higher order thinking for E nglish L anguage and L iteracy A cquisition (STELLA), delivered to 38 Hispanic English language learners (ELL) placed in an enhanced transitional bilingual programme over 2 years from first to second grade as compared with 34 control students placed in a typical practice transitional bilingual programme during the same time period. Both treatment and comparison ELL students' retellings of two stories in Spanish and English were measured by five story elements. Findings were that (a) students receiving intervention outperformed their comparison peers in all five story elements in English and Spanish of both stories; (b) students showed stronger ability in their native language in four of five story elements; and (c) students performed at a higher level in the narrative‐informational story than a narrative story in both languages. Educational implications are discussed.