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The Effects of English Language Proficiency and Scientific Reasoning Skills on the Acquisition of Science Content Knowledge by Hispanic English Language Learners and Native English Language Speaking Students

@article{Torres2002TheEO,
  title={The Effects of English Language Proficiency and Scientific Reasoning Skills on the Acquisition of Science Content Knowledge by Hispanic English Language Learners and Native English Language Speaking Students},
  author={Hector N. Torres and Dana L. Zeidler},
  journal={The Electronic Journal of Science Education},
  year={2002},
  volume={6},
  pages={1-59},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:12935612}
}
The findings of the paper imply that high order English language proficiency combined with high levels of reasoning skills enhances students' abilities to learn science content subject matter.
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