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Minkyung Cho; Young-Suk Grace Kim – Grantee Submission, 2023
Purpose: Children's ability to adjust one's language according to discourse context is important for success in academic settings. This study examined whether second graders vary in linguistic and discourse features depending on discourse contexts, that is, when describing pictures in contextualized (describing the picture to an examiner while…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Adjustment, Grade 2, Discourse Analysis
Minkyung Cho; Young-Suk Grace Kim – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Children's ability to adjust one's language according to discourse context is important for success in academic settings. This study examined whether second graders vary in linguistic and discourse features depending on discourse contexts, that is, when describing pictures in contextualized (describing the picture to an examiner while…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Adjustment, Grade 2, Discourse Analysis
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Maassen, Ben A. M.; Krikhaar, Evelien; van der Leij, Aryan; Fikkert, Paula – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this study was to gain more insight into the linguistic characterization of dyslexia by investigating vocabulary acquisition. In a previous study, vocabulary at 17 months of age appeared to be related to familial risk (FR) of dyslexia. The aim of this study was to investigate how the differences in lexical composition further…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Vocabulary Development, Dyslexia, At Risk Persons
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Petersen, Douglas B.; Mesquita, Meredith W.; Spencer, Trina D.; Waldron, Jessica – Topics in Language Disorders, 2020
This early-stage feasibility study investigated the effects of a multitiered oral narrative language intervention on oral language, reading comprehension, and writing. Twenty-eight second-grade students participated in this quasi-experimental control group study with assignment at the classroom level. The independent variable was large- and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, Pretests Posttests, Phrase Structure
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Pappas, Christine C.; Varelas, Maria – Language Arts, 2009
This article presents a review of the author's long-term research in urban classrooms. The authors explore six illustrated information books created by children as culminating activities of integrated science-literacy units, Forest and Matter, that they developed, implemented, and studied in several 1st-3rd grade classrooms in Chicago Public…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Scientific Literacy, Books, Public Schools