EXECUTIVE SUMMARY—Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY—Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth

Diane August and Timothy Shanahan

This book is a synthesis of the full volume, Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners, reporting the ?ndings of the National Literacy Panelon language-minority children and youth. The Panel—a distinguishedgroup of expert researchers in reading, language, bilingualism, researchmethods, and education—was appointed to identify, assess, and syn-thesize research on the education of language-minority children andyouth with respect to their attainment of literacy. In this book, chaptersadapted from the original report concisely review the statement ofknowledge on the development of literacy in language-minoritychildren and youth, in relation to ?ve speci?c themes: