Learning Portuguese as a Second Language

This volume examines the specific effects that schools have on the performance of immigrant students and linguistic minority groups.

Especially in the European context this study fills a gap in examining the effects that schools have on these students' performance and performance differentiation, taking into account school related factors such as resources and teachers, and the influence of other variables like mother tongue and socioeconomic status.

This report on an ongoing research project in Portugal examines state schools within the same district, in the same tests over the same assessment period.