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B -- TRANSFER OF READING SKILLS IN LIMITED ENGLISH-PROFICIENT (LEP) STUDENTS SOL ED-98-CO-0071 POC Janet V. Mata-Hitz, Contract Specialist, 202 260-0092 The U.S. Department of Education contemplates extending for an additional year, work under contract ED98CO0071. In September 1998, the U.S. Department of Education awarded a contract to Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) of Washington, DC, for a study of the "Transfer of Reading Skills in Limited English-Proficient (LEP) Students." During the initial two years of the contract, CAL has been successful in disseminating preliminary findings, locating groups of young children who were literate in Spanish, but not formally exposed to English reading instruction, and involving the country's leading reading researchers in this project. Their work has prompted numerous inquiries from researchers, practitioners, and the media. "A third contract year allows results to be comparable with key outcomes from NAEP, which covers fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades. The data from a third year also contributes to literature on "fourth grade dip" (drop-off) in reading proficiency scores"___Snow, Wong-Filmore, et.al. Having been the researchers on this project, CAL is uniquely qualified to proceed with the study and to perform the follow-on-work to contract ED98CO0071, as the study deals with a combination of linguistics, literacy aquisition, empirical research procedures, and dual-language instruction. The U.S. Department of Education intends to execute a modification to extend this contract on or before August 30, 2000. See Note 22. Issue date 8/3/00; closing date 8/17/00. Posted 08/03/00 (W-SN481924). (0216)

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