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Nelson, Brenna Scadden; Petersen, Douglas B.; Rai, Anuradha – Language and Education, 2022
Background: Children in India are among the lowest performing students on international reading comprehension and writing assessments. Oral language instruction may improve these literacy outcomes. Aim: This pilot study investigated whether a multi-tiered system of language support (MTSLS) improved oral narrative language comprehension, reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
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Ravi, Sunil Kumar; Chengappa, Shyamala K. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
The present study aimed at exploring the semantic and syntactic processing differences between native and second languages in 20 early high proficient Kannada--English bilingual adults through accuracy and reaction time (RT) measurements. Subjects participated in a semantic judgement task (using 50 semantically correct and 50 semantically…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, English, Bilingualism, Adults
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Sood, Vishal – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2013
For identifying children with four major kinds of verbal learning disabilities viz. reading disability, speech and language comprehension disability, writing disability and mathematics disability, the present task was undertaken to construct and standardize verbal learning disabilities checklist. This checklist was developed by keeping in view the…
Descriptors: Verbal Learning, Learning Disabilities, Children, Disability Identification
Steffensen, Margaret S. – 1981
Noting that register and cohesion are two concepts that define a text, this paper describes register as the variety of language that is appropriate for the situation of the speech event and cohesion as the semantic relations in a text that make it coherent. The first part of the paper discusses three cross-cultural studies of comprehension…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Cross Cultural Studies