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Does Assessor Masking Affect Kindergartners' Performance on Oral Language Measures? A COVID-19 Era Experiment with Children from Diverse Home Language Backgrounds
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Sarah Surrain; Michael P. Mesa; Mike A. Assel; Tricia A. Zucker – Grantee Submission, 2023
Purpose: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has prompted changes to child assessment procedures in schools such as the use of face masks by assessors. Research with adults suggests that face masks diminish performance on speech processing and comprehension tasks, yet little is known about how assessor masking affects child performance. Therefore, we…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Native Language, Language Tests
Does Assessor Masking Affect Kindergartners' Performance on Oral Language Measures? A COVID-19 Era Experiment with Children from Diverse Home Language Backgrounds
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Sarah Surrain; Michael P. Mesa; Mike A. Assel; Tricia A. Zucker – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has prompted changes to child assessment procedures in schools such as the use of face masks by assessors. Research with adults suggests that face masks diminish performance on speech processing and comprehension tasks, yet little is known about how assessor masking affects child performance. Therefore, we…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Native Language, Language Tests
Code-Switching, Memory and the (Im)possibility of Return in Ghada Karmi's "Return: A Palestinian Memoir"
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Hamamra, Bilal; Mayaleh, Asala – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This article examines the role of code-switching in recreating the place, Palestine, that contemporary Palestinian memoirist Ghada Karmi was expelled from by providing a close analysis of the code-switched expressions and the plurality of voices and perspectives that this linguistic and cultural phenomenon imply in her work "Return: A…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Authors, Code Switching (Language), Arabs