They are prone to struggle in understanding academic concepts that their mother tongues are not familiar with . Their college readiness language-wise , therefore , is an obstacle for their college success . Although limited to college psychology classes , Maricel G . Santos 's research yielded findings that ``native English-speaking speakers exhibit stronger vocabulary skills than the language-minority students .who , in turn , performed better than the language-minority students ' and that ``language-minority community college students with greater breadth of academic word knowledge also demonstrated greater depth...











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