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Direct linkSpeirs, Samantha; Yelland, Greg; Rinehart, Nicole; Tonge, Bruce – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The presence or absence of clinically delayed language development prior to 3 years of age is a key, but contentious, clinical feature distinguishing autism from Asperger's disorder. The aim of this study was to examine language processing in children with high-functioning autism (HFA) and Asperger's disorder (AD) using a task which taps lexical…
Descriptors: Priming, Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Language Processing
Coventry, William; Anton-Mendez, Ines; Ellis, Elizabeth M.; Levisen, Christina; Byrne, Brian; van Daal, Victor H. P.; Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2012
We present one of the first behavior-genetic studies of individual differences in school students' levels of achievement in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA). We assessed these language abilities in Australian twin pairs (maximum N pairs = 251) by means of teacher ratings, class rankings, and self-ratings of proficiency, and used the…
Descriptors: Twins, Second Language Learning, Genetics, Etiology
Benzie, Helen Joy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2010
The current concern about low levels of English proficiency among international students who graduate from degree courses--that students' English language skills are not being developed during their higher education experience--reflects negatively on the quality of Australian higher education and its graduates. More careful selection of students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Integration, Negative Attitudes, Language Tests
