{"id":5294,"date":"2026-08-16T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:50:22","slug":"new-research-explores-how-home-languages-can-strengthen-early-english-reading-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5294","title":{"rendered":"New research explores how home languages can strengthen early English reading instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-explores-home-languages-early-english.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"New research explores how home languages can strengthen early English reading instruction\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2026\/breaking-barriers-for.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">phys.org<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">New research explores how home languages can strengthen early English reading instruction<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">During a reading lesson, Mateo, an elementary multilingual learner (MLL) in a Delaware public school, read &#8220;sit&#8221; as &#8220;seat.&#8221; Jon Kittle, his reading interventionist, walked him through the short vowel sound, but Mateo made the same &#8220;mistake&#8221; and grew frustrated. Kittle began to wonder if these &#8220;errors&#8221; were actually the result of Mateo applying what he knew from Spanish, where the letter &#8220;i&#8221; carries the sound of the English long &#8220;\u0113.&#8221;<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}