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Ibrahim A. Asadi; Abeer Asli-Badarneh; Raphiq Ibrahim; Hussein Hamzah – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study examined the differences in spoken Arabic (SpA) and standard Arabic (StA) in inflectional (gender, number, possessive pronouns, and tense) construction use in Arabic among preschoolers. Moreover, we tested the contribution of the inflectional constructions possessed in kindergarten to reading skills in the first grade and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Morphology (Languages), Literacy, Arabic
Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker; Noella Handley; Bradley Rentz; Jim Yoshioka; Victoria Anderson; Bradley McDonnell – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
The "International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation" series, or ICLDC, has, since its inception in 2009, become the flagship conference for the field of language documentation. Every two years, conference attendees gather at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa to share their experiences working on diverse topics…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Research, Documentation, Conferences (Gatherings)
Hsu, Dong-Bo – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
Three experiments on structural priming in Mandarin-speaking 5-year-olds were conducted to test the priming as implicit learning hypothesis. It describes a learning mechanism that acts on a shared abstract syntactic representation in response to linguistic input using an equi-biased Mandarin SVO-"ba" alternation. The first two…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Priming, Language Processing
Huang, Aijun; Crain, Stephen – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
In addition to serving as question markers with interrogative force, "wh"-words such as "shenme" "what" in Mandarin Chinese have a noninterrogative meaning. For the noninterrogative meaning, these words have been typically analyzed as negative polarity items, i.e., as "wh"-pronouns that are similar in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Mandarin Chinese, Language Research
Su, Yi – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
This study investigates 2-5-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's interpretation of the disjunction word "huozhe" ("or") in two positions in "ruguo" ("if")-conditional statements, i.e., in the antecedent clause versus in the consequent clause. The findings from three experiments show that the meanings…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phrase Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Toddlers
Oweini, Ahmad; Hazoury, Katia – International Review of Education, 2010
While the English language boasts a century of research into its most frequently-used words, no such attempt has ever formally been made in the Arab world. This pioneering study presents a list of 500 commonly-used words in the Arabic language based on compilations of words gathered from a number of popular reading series in Lebanon, spanning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Semitic Languages, Word Lists
Bauer, Eurydice B., Ed.; Gort, Mileidis, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
A large and growing number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the US and around the world have the potential to develop bilingualism and biliteracy if supported in their immediate environment. At the forefront in focusing exclusively on biliteracy development in early childhood across a variety of languages, this…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Caregiver Role, Grade 1, Bilingualism
Marinova-Todd, Stefka H.; Zhao, Jing; Bernhardt, May – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
A number of studies have shown that bilingual children have an advantage when performing on phonological awareness tasks, particularly in their stronger language. Little research has been done to date, examining the effects of bilingualism on both languages of bilingual children. In this study Mandarin-English bilingual children's performance on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism, Mandarin Chinese
Laaha, Sabine; Ravid, Dorit; Korecky-Kroll, Katharina; Laaha, Gregor; Dressler, Wolfgang U. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
The acquisition of German plurals has been the focus of controversy in the last decade. In this paper we claim that degree of productivity (i.e. the capacity of nouns to form potential plurals) plays a key role in determining pace of acquisition. A plural elicitation task was administered to 84 Viennese German-speaking children aged 2;6 to 6;0.…
Descriptors: Nouns, German, Language Acquisition, Child Language
Mcbride-Chang, Catherine; Chow, Bonnie W. Y.; Zhong, Yiping; Burgess, Stephen; Hayward, William G. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Three different visual skills, along with Chinese character recognition, vocabulary, speeded naming, and syllable deletion skills were tested twice over one school year among 118 Hong Kong and 96 Xiangtan, China kindergartners. Results revealed that a task of Visual Spatial Relationships [Gardner, M. F. (1996). "Test of visual-perceptual…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Acquisition, Visual Perception, Scripts
Vaughn, Sharon; Linan-Thompson, Sylvia – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007
At last, a truly helpful, practical guide for K-4 teachers who want to ensure that their approach to teaching young English language learners is based on research and grounded in proven classroom practices. The authors of ASCD's best-selling book "Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction, Grades K-3" explain how you can help the English…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Second Language Learning
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This report focuses on a family of interventions that includes all "Direct Instruction" products ("DISTAR" and "Language for Learning"). "Direct Instruction" was used to refer to this family of interventions, as well as to all versions past and present. "Direct Instruction" includes teaching…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Reading, Teaching Methods, Student Characteristics