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Angelika Illg; Doris Adams; Anke Lesinski-Schiedat; Thomas Lenarz; Andrej Kral – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Objectives: The primary aim was to investigate the variability in language development in children aged 5-7.5 years after bilateral cochlear implantation (CI) up to the age of 2 years, and any impact of the age at implantation and additional noncognitive or anatomical disorders at implantation. Design: Data of 84 congenitally deaf children that…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Assistive Technology
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Schaadt, Gesa; Werwach, Annika; Obrig, Hellmuth; Friederici, Angela D.; Männel, Claudia – Child Development, 2023
Consonants and vowels differentially contribute to lexical acquisition. From 8 months on, infants' preferential reliance on consonants has been shown to predict their lexical outcome. Here, the predictive value of German-learning infants' (n = 58, 29 girls, 29 boys) trajectories of consonant and vowel perception, indicated by the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Vowels, Infants, German
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Alyaz, Yunus; Spaniel-Weise, Dorothea; Gursoy, Esim – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
The interest in Digital Game-Based Language Learning (DGBLL) has increased considerably in recent years although being a relatively new approach. Despite the interest that DGBLL took, the studies in the context of German as a Foreign Language (FL) are quite limited. Moreover, DGBLL in the Turkish context is not prevalent. Due to this gap in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Games, Second Language Instruction
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Pfenninger, Simone E. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
This study examines evidence for the hypothesis (e.g., Muñoz, 2006) that an early starting age is not necessarily more beneficial to the successful learning of L2 inflectional morphology in strictly formal instructional settings. The present author investigated the quantitative and qualitative differences in the production and reception of 5…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), English (Second Language)