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Puglisi, Marina L.; Blasi, Helena F.; Snowling, Margaret J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: This study aimed to develop and validate a screening questionnaire for the early identification of language difficulties in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking preschool children. Method: The article is divided into two studies. In the first study, we reported the theoretical principles that guided the development of the Screening for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Screening Tests
Zaccaron, Rafael – Online Submission, 2018
Using Swain's (1985) output hypothesis as a basis, this article investigated the effect an immediate repeated oral task had on the performance of participants. Two groups of beginner learners of English as an additional language in Brazil performed a decision-making oral task in groups. Drawing from Lynch and MacLean's (2001) carousel task, the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Linguistic Theory, Accuracy, Task Analysis
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Silva, Glaucia V. – Hispania, 2011
Over the past four decades, scholars have debated the pedagogical and sociolinguistic needs of heritage language learners. It is widely accepted that these learners present several characteristics that are different from those of foreign (or non-heritage) language learners. However, scholars have also pointed to similarities between the two groups…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction