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Calchei, Marcela; Barrett, Karen Caplovitz; Amukune, Stephen; Józsa, Krisztián – Cogent Education, 2022
Recent empirical research has demonstrated the importance of mastery motivation in child development. Therefore, it is essential to have valid and reliable instruments to measure this variable. The Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaires (DMQ 18) was validated in English, Hungarian, Chinese and Spanish. In this article, we evaluate the psychometric…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Russian, Romance Languages, Ethnic Groups
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Shahar-Yames, Daphna; Prior, Anat – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Lexical inferencing from text is a powerful tool for vocabulary and reading comprehension enhancement. Lexical inferencing relies on the pre-requisite skills of reading and existing vocabulary, and is also linked to non-verbal inferencing abilities and reading comprehension. In this study, we examined whether Fifth-grade Russian-speaking language…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Accuracy
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Friedman, Debra A. – Applied Linguistics, 2010
This study uses a language socialization approach to explore the role of Ukrainian language instruction in the revitalization of Ukrainian as the national language. Based on 10 months ethnographic observation and videotaping of classroom interaction in two fifth-grade Ukrainian language and literature classrooms, it focuses on corrective feedback…
Descriptors: Socialization, Official Languages, Ideology, Ukrainian