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Snoder, Per; Laufer, Batia – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
The study investigated how well Swedish adolescents recognize the meaning of derived words in English and whether this knowledge is determined by learner proficiency, word frequency, or affix type. Participants were 88 school students in two proficiency groups: 39 advanced 12th graders and 49 intermediate 9th graders. Two tests of receptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Erik Marsja; Emil Holmer; Victoria Stenbäck; Andreea Micula; Carlos Tirado; Henrik Danielsson; Jerker Rönnberg – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Although the existing literature has explored the link between cognitive functioning and speech recognition in noise, the specific role of fluid intelligence still needs to be studied. Given the established association between working memory capacity (WMC) and fluid intelligence and the predictive power of WMC for speech recognition in…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Word Recognition, Speech Communication, Auditory Perception
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Bjarte Furnes; Åsa Elwér; Stefan Samuelsson; Rebecca Treiman; Richard K. Olson – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated the stability and developmental interplay of word reading and spelling in samples of Swedish (N = 191) and U.S. children (N = 489) followed across four time points: end of kindergarten, grades 1, 2, and 4. Cross-lagged path models revealed that reading and spelling showed moderate to strong autoregressive effects, with reading…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Reading Processes, Word Recognition
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Simon Sundström; Moa Höglund; Rebecca Sällberg; Hanna Walsö – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
Multilingual children living in areas with low socioeconomic status (SES) are at an increased risk of having speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Many multilingual children with SLCN in Sweden have insufficient basic vocabulary knowledge in the majority language, preventing them from achieving the school's learning goals. However,…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Vocabulary, Intervention, Multilingualism
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Eldblom, Julia; Boström, Petra; Broberg, Malin; Åsberg Johnels, Jakob – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Reading difficulties are linked to several disadvantages in the general population. Less is known about correlates of reading difficulties in individuals with intellectual and severe developmental disabilities (IDD). Vocabulary and word reading were assessed in 112 adolescents with IDD, recruited from Special needs comprehensive schools in Sweden…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Adolescents
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Gustafson, Stefan; Nordström, Thomas; Andersson, Ulrika B.; Fälth, Linda; Ingvar, Martin – Education, 2019
We present quantitative results from the pilot-year of a large scale Swedish educational project in reading development called LegiLexi, inspired by research within the response to intervention and formative assessment traditions. The vision of the project is that every pupil should reach adequate reading skills at the end of grade 3 in primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction