I don't know about research but my adult students don't feel that they 
have the time to do this.  What I'm curious about is whether becoming 
literate in english then carries over to the student's first language.  
Abbie Tom
On Monday, February 6, 2006, at 06:55  PM, JMCAST1031 at aol.com wrote:
abtom at mindspring.com
Abbie Tom
Durham Technical Community College
Durham, NC US


>     Hi, everyone...... a  "quick and dirty" question.  Is there any 

> research on teaching

> Adult  LD  or  illiterate students in their own language for a 

> semester or  100 hours, before

> immersion into English????   Basically, if the student learns how to 

> read and write and/or

> decode in their language,  is that a benefit to them in their process 

> of learning English???

>  

> Thanks,   Jay