Page 74 - Second language development of newly arrived migrant kindergarteners - Frederike Groothoff

74 Chapter 4 School grows. Nevertheless, this variable allows us to understand differences between children with similar amounts of exposure but different ages and between children with a similar age but with different amounts of exposure. The variable Educational Facility has two values: “segregated,” meaning a DL2-school (segregated independent DL2-school or a DL2-class within a mainstream school) or “inclusive,” meaning a Mainstream school. Tables 4.1 and 4.2 provide descriptive characteristics of the participants in this study, per session. Session 0 is the first assessment, but since it was fairly in the binning of the language learning process we called it Session 0 to indicate the null-measurement. The division of participants is skewed, with 32 participants at DL2-schools compared to 10 participants at Mainstream schools. This skewedness is caused by the fact that it was easier to recruit pupils at DL2-schools compared to Mainstream schools since there is a concentration of newly arrived migrant pupils at DL2-schools. At Mainstream schools, in contrast, most of the time only one pupil was eligible to participate in the study.