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Yao, Yao; Chen, Xiaoxiang; Chen, Fei; Zhu, Jiaqiang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Previous research has indicated the beneficial effects of musical training on speech perception in children. However, little has been known about whether musical training exerts transfer effects on fine-grained perception of linguistic pitch and time information. This study aimed to investigate the effects of different musical training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Music Education, Speech Communication
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Woon, Chai Ping; Yap, Ngee Thai; Lim, Hui Woan; Wong, Bee Eng – Journal of Education and Learning, 2014
Sentence repetition (SR) tasks have been used to measure children's expressive language skills in normal and abnormal language development, and to examine the development of the speaking skills in second language acquisition, as well as to survey the proficiency of bilingual language development. Recently, SR tasks have been recognized as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Mandarin Chinese
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Reckase, Mark D.; Xu, Jing-Ru – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
How to compute and report subscores for a test that was originally designed for reporting scores on a unidimensional scale has been a topic of interest in recent years. In the research reported here, we describe an application of multidimensional item response theory to identify a subscore structure in a test designed for reporting results using a…
Descriptors: English, Language Skills, English Language Learners, Scores