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Johanson, Megan; Arthur, Ann M. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2016
Background: Improving children's oral language skills is an important focus of educational research and practice; however, relatively few interventions have demonstrated impacts on these skills. This work makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the effects of language-focused interventions in pre-kindergarten settings by examining…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Skills, Intervention, Comprehension
Johanson, Megan; Arthur, Ann M. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Background: Improving children's oral language skills is an important focus of educational research and practice; however, relatively few interventions have demonstrated impacts on these skills. This work makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the effects of language-focused interventions in pre-kindergarten settings by examining…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Skills, Skill Development, Oral Language
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Rahimpour, Massoud; Mehrang, Faezeh – English Language Teaching, 2010
It is argued that tasks with different structures yield different performances in terms of accuracy, fluency and complexity. The present study is thus an attempt to investigate the impact of task structure on second language task performance. Thirty two upper-intermediate Iranian learners of English performed two narrative tasks (Structured vs.…
Descriptors: Oral English, Oral Language, English (Second Language), Accuracy