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Hsu, Yawen; Lin, Tesu Yi; Lu, Frank J. H. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study explored the effects of a 6-week psychological displacement paradigm in diary-writing (PDPD) intervention on alexithymia and social connectedness in Taiwanese college athletes at the individual and interpersonal levels. The sample comprised 87 participants (M[subscript age] = 19.80 ± 0.75 years). After a pretest, the individual writing…
Descriptors: Diaries, Foreign Countries, College Students, Athletes
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Hsin-Chieh Chen – Research in Pedagogy, 2024
Individuals with Asperger Syndrome (AS) often face difficulties in social communication and language skills, encompassing comprehension and production in both their first and second languages. English as a second language has been one of the most common communication tools and a school subject for decades in Asia; therefore, mastering English…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Communication Skills, Language Skills, Receptive Language
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Koh, Poh Wee; Ku, Yu-Min; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
How the construct of vocabulary is defined remains unclear although multiple theories have been put forth. In light of the lack of empirical work investigating the dimensionality of vocabulary knowledge in Chinese, the present study investigated the factor structure of Chinese print vocabulary in a sample of 111 Taiwanese children in Grades 1 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Grade 1
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Sah, Wen-hui – First Language, 2018
This study investigates the referential choice of Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The data consist of narratives from 16 children with ASD and 16 typically-developing (TD) children. The narratives were elicited using the wordless picture book "Frog, where are you?" Participants' referential expressions…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Classification, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Chen, Li Ju – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2017
The critical component that allow the students with disabilities to be effectively included into the general education setting are of concern. Objectives: This research explored the factors relating to the effective inclusion of junior high school students with moderate intellectual disability (ID). Methods: The study was based on a survey of 74…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Inclusion, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Junior High School Students
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Chu, Szu-Yin – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2016
Current educational policy promotes the use of evidence-based practices to maximize children's learning outcomes. With the goal of enhancing a child's ability to learn functional language, the purpose of this study was to focus on involving families through the utilization of evidence-based intervention based upon the Applied Behaviour Analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Verbal Communication, Language Skills
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Tang, Hersong; Chiou, Jer-Shiou; Jarsaillon, Oliver – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigated how task-based learning (TBL) developed the verbal competence of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) by employing qualitative and quantitative analyses. We compared the impromptu oral presentations on reading texts of 76 intermediate EFL learners given respectively in the beginning and the end of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Webb, Stuart; Newton, Jonathan; Chang, Anna – Language Learning, 2013
This study investigated the effects of repetition on the learning of collocation. Taiwanese university students learning English as a foreign language simultaneously read and listened to one of four versions of a modified graded reader that included different numbers of encounters (1, 5, 10, and 15 encounters) with a set of 18 target collocations.…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Liu, Huei-Mei – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: I examined the long-term association between the lexical and acoustic features of maternal utterances during book reading and the language skills of infants and children. Maternal utterances were collected from 22 mother-child dyads in picture book-reading episodes when children were ages 6-12 months and 5 years. Two aspects of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Verbal Communication, Acoustics, Language Skills
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Chiang, Hsu-Min – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2009
This study observed expressive communication of 17 Australian and 15 Taiwanese children with autism who were mute or had limited spoken language during 2 hour regular school routines and analyzed teacher instructions associated with elicited expressive communication. Results indicated: (a) the frequency of occurrence of elicited expressive…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Autism, Oral Language
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Chiang, Hsu-Min; Lin, Yueh-Hsien – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
Expressive communication of Australian and Taiwanese children with autism who had limited spoken language was observed in naturalistic settings. Communicative forms, functions, and partners were investigated. No significant differences existed in the characteristics of expressive communication between children with speech and those without speech.…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Speech, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Autism
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Chiang, Hsu-Min – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2008
Background: There is a lack of empirical research investigating challenging behaviour in children with autism with severe speech impairments in naturalistic settings. The aim of the present study was to investigate challenging behaviour among Australian and Taiwanese children with autism who are non-verbal or have limited speech (i.e. less than…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Speech Impairments, Autism, Expressive Language