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Rupert Knight – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
Spoken language in schools, now often branded as oracy, is seeing something of a resurgence of interest. This is well-founded and to be welcomed. Nevertheless, the policy-level coopting of oracy, as a concept open to various interpretations, raises questions concerning the desirable degree of prescription and conformity to be promoted in pupils'…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Oral Language, Communication Skills, Skill Development
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Johanna R. Price; Emily C. Biebesheimer; Kong Chen – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
Background and aims: Gender differences in the written language of autistic individuals are an overlooked but important area of research. We contend that the gender differences in spoken language of autistic individuals may extend to written language, mirroring the gender differences of writing in the general population and reflecting the shared…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Written Language, Writing Skills, Adolescents
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Daniel E. O'Donnell; Alijah A. Forbes; Michelle C. Huffman; Kathryn Porter; Michelle Miller – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2024
The current study examined verbal cues of veracity and deception in 911 calls reporting homicides or suicides of another person. Specifically, the current study compared differences in the presence/absence and number of potential verbal indicators between a sample of deceptive callers who concealed their role in causing the person's death and…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Death, Suicide, Credibility
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Scott Cohen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
This Family and Practitioner Brief discusses the challenge in translating complex scientific words with abstract concepts from spoken/written language to American Sign Language (ASL).
Descriptors: Translation, Scientific Concepts, Vocabulary, Oral Language
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Yi Zhang; Wei Ren – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Although a growing body of literature has explored multilingual users' digital practice, dialects adoptions have received relatively little attention. As an important part of the Chinese language, spoken dialects, or '[Chinese characters omitted]' (fangyan), are highly complex in their classification and colloquial usage. Nevertheless, Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Dialects, Written Language
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Angela Feehan; Monique Charest – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Children with Tourette syndrome (TS) have historically experienced problems in academic and social settings, yet their language and communication abilities have not been extensively researched. Aims: This scoping review maps the literature on the oral language and social communication abilities of children with TS in order to describe…
Descriptors: Children, Neurological Impairments, Oral Language, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Katherine Shobbrook; Poppy Young; Suzanne Beeke; Wendy Best – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Oral comprehension difficulties are prevalent in preschool children with language difficulties and are frequently the target of speech and language therapy (SLT) intervention. To support the implementation of research to practice, there is a need to identify effective interventions for this population and to describe their components.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Language, Comprehension, Preschool Children
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Rupert Knight – Literacy, 2024
The contribution of spoken language to outcomes for education and beyond, including attainment, wellbeing and empowerment is long-established and has recently become more prominent under the title of oracy, often conceptualised as learning both to and through talk. Part of the renewed interest in oracy is due to its potential for driving social…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Speech Communication, Cultural Capital
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Taylor M. Mezaraups; David L. Gilden – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
The basic timescales governing animal life are generally determined by body size. Pauses in naturally occurring human speech were investigated to determine if pause timescales are also sensitive to body size. Reported is an analysis of pause duration allometry in recorded interviews of 61 athletes. Pauses were divided into three classes based on…
Descriptors: Speech, Auditory Perception, Body Composition, Time
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Xiaoyan Li; Yonghan Peng; Xinjun Zheng – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study tested the role of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)'s conversational expansion in mediating between mothers' descriptive language and children with ASD's conversational repair, and whether this mediation was moderated by the relative complexity of mother-child language. Videos of forty children with ASD engaging in various…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Mothers, Language Usage
Tyler Méndez Kline – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the role of prosody in narration as a function of Labovian narrative structure and stancetaking in identity performance. This study is both an extension and enhancement of preliminary work that looked at a handful of prosodic features in Mexican Spanish narratives, and a novel investigation into discursive acts expressed…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Bilingualism, Mexican Americans, Personal Narratives
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Jenna Bongioletti; Maree Doble; Alison Purcell – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Technological and therapeutic advances have allowed many children who are born hard-of-hearing (HoH) to start school with age-appropriate spoken language skills, yet many of these children continue to find everyday conversations challenging. This scoping review maps the evidence related to development of conversation and pragmatic skills in…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Language Skills, Oral Language, Communication Skills
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Harpa Stefánsdóttir; Kathryn Crowe; Egill Magnússon; Mark Guiberson; Thora Másdóttir; Inga Ágústsdóttir; Ösp V. Baldursdóttir – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
There is great variability in the ways in which the speech intelligibility of d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children who use spoken language as part, or all, of their communication system is measured. This systematic review examined the measures and methods that have been used when examining the speech intelligibility of children who are DHH…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Oral Language, Interpersonal Communication
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Giulia Vettori; Alice Mercugliano; Lucia Bigozzi; Oriana Incognito – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Cross-sectional studies have shown the connections between oral language, reading, and writing skills, but there has been limited longitudinal research, especially in primary school. This study examined the relationships between oral narrative, reading, and writing skills in a longitudinal sample of 80 Italian-speaking primary school children…
Descriptors: Italian, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Thinking Skills
Lillian Chang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language is a unique skill used by humans to communicate thoughts and feelings. For most individuals, language is understood through different sensory modalities--for instance, hearing auditory words relies on audition, while perceiving visual speech via lipreading and reading written text both utilize the visual system. Although these different…
Descriptors: Reading, Oral Language, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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