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Yeldham, Michael; Choy, Vincent – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
The main purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness for L2 English learners of a new direct approach to segmental pronunciation instruction that combined articulatory instruction with abdominal enhancement techniques. The participants were Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong, where the school curriculum relies chiefly on indirect…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Muter, Valerie; Hulme, Charles; Snowling, Margaret J.; Stevenson, Jim – Developmental Psychology, 2004
The authors present the results of a 2-year longitudinal study of 90 British children beginning at school entry when they were 4 years 9 months old (range = 4 years 2 months to 5 years 2 months). The relationships among early phonological skills, letter knowledge, grammatical skills, and vocabulary knowledge were investigated as predictors of word…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Phonemes, Grammar, Word Recognition