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Validation of the Abbreviated Version of the Token Test in Latin American Spanish Stroke Patients
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Teresa Julio-Ramos; Valentina Mora-Castelletto; José Conejeros-Pavez; Josette Saez-Martínez; Pía Solinas-Ivys; Pamela Donoso; Bernardita Soler-León; Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro; Camilo Quezada; Carolina Méndez-Orellana – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The abbreviated version of the Token Test (aTT) is widely used to assess language comprehension deficits in stroke patients (SPs). However, aTT has not been validated for Latin American Spanish speakers, so clinicians tend to use cut-off scores for aTT validated in developed countries. Aims: To provide normative data for the Spanish…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Comprehension, Disabilities
Assessing Preschool English Learners' Receptive and Expressive Language Ability to Inform Instruction
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Kim, Ahyoung Alicia; Chapman, Mark; West, Gordon Blaine; Zheng, Bingjie; Cranley, M. Elizabeth – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explores how preschool educators could assess dual language learners' (DLLs) English language abilities using formative instruments in school settings. It specifically examines (1) DLLs' receptive and expressive language proficiencies measured using the instruments and (2) educators' perceived usefulness of them for informing…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, English (Second Language), Cross Cultural Studies
The Acquisition of Focus in L2 Spanish
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Leal, Tania; Destruel, Emilie; Hoot, Bradley – Second Language Research, 2019
This paper examines the strategies used by speakers of Spanish as a second language (L2) for marking Information Focus, a phenomenon found at the syntax-discourse interface. Sorace and colleagues have proposed the Interface Hypothesis, according to which the syntax-discourse interface poses unique challenges for bilinguals (Sorace, 2011). With…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Discourse Analysis
Effects of Script-Based Communicative Intervention on Psychological and Cultural Adaptation in Students Abroad in Second-Language Contexts
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Thomas, Rebecca S.; Waugh, Christian E. – Intercultural Education, 2020
This study examined the effects of a script-based communicative intervention (SBCI) on psychological and cultural adaptation in students studying abroad in second language (German and Spanish) contexts. Regardless of language proficiency, students with exposure to the SBCI, relative to those without the intervention, exhibited higher well-being…
Descriptors: Intervention, Study Abroad, German, Spanish
Clitic-Doubled Left Dislocation and Focus Fronting in L2 Spanish: A Case of Successful Acquisition at the Syntax-Discourse Interface
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Slabakova, Roumyana; Kempchinsky, Paula; Rothman, Jason – Second Language Research, 2012
This experimental study tests the Interface Hypothesis by looking into processes at the syntax-discourse interface, teasing apart acquisition of syntactic, semantic and discourse knowledge. Adopting Lopez's (2009) pragmatic features [[plus or minus]a(naphor)] and [[plus or minus]c(ontrast)], which in combination account for the constructions of…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Syntax, Semantics, Spanish
The Role of Language Aptitude in First Language Attrition: The Case of Pre-Pubescent Attriters
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Bylund, Emanuel; Abrahamsson, Niclas; Hyltenstam, Kenneth – Applied Linguistics, 2010
While language aptitude has been investigated actively within second language research, there is a current dearth of research on the effects of aptitude in cases of attrition. The aim of the present investigation was to explore the role of language aptitude for L1 proficiency in speakers who experienced a break with their L1 setting prior to…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Language Skill Attrition, Language Research