Participant observation was used to examine the role of oral language in early writing. Data collection took place daily over a three-month period in a kindergarten classroom. The researcher set up a ...

Oral competency is essential to the language classroom. Most language teachers focus on vocabulary building, the dreaded conjugation charts, and the false realities often found in school texts.

A yearlong classroom-based intervention was designed to explore the reading-writing connection in second-language literacy by examining whether the development of reading improves writing and vice ...