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McClintock, Brenna; Pesco, Diane; Martin-Chang, Sandra – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2014
Background: Many lines of evidence now suggest that inferencing plays a substantial role in text comprehension. However, inferencing appears to be difficult for children with language impairments, many of whom are also struggling readers. Aims: To assess the effects of a "think-aloud" procedure on inference generation and narrative text…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis
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Roberts, Lynette V.; Richmond, Jenny L. – Developmental Science, 2015
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) exhibit a behavioral phenotype of specific strengths and weaknesses, in addition to a generalized cognitive delay. In particular, adults with DS exhibit specific deficits in learning and memory processes that depend on the hippocampus, and there is some suggestion of impairments on executive function tasks that…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Down Syndrome, Genetics, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Okyay, Ozlem; Kandir, Adalet – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study aims to review the impact of the interactive story reading method on 48-72 month children's vocabulary based on receptive and expressive language. The study group is 52 children in the 48-72 months age group at the nurseries of primary schools at Ankara province. The research employed a combined pattern analyzing both quantitative and…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Expressive Language, Vocabulary Development, Control Groups
Bell, Christian M. – Online Submission, 2014
This report evaluates a sample of students' achievement in the Austin Independent School District pre-K program during the 2013-2014 school year, based on Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-IV (PPVT) and Test de Vocabularío en Imagenes Peabody (TVIP) results.
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Verbal Ability, Preschool Education, School Districts
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Holmes, Robyn M.; Romeo, Lynn; Ciraola, Stephanie; Grushko, Michelle – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
In this study, we explore the interconnectedness between children's creativity, social play, and language abilities. The participants were 225 (109 girls, 116 boys) preschool children, from diverse European American, African American, and Hispanic ethnic heritages. We assessed the children in three ways. First, each child completed the Goodenough…
Descriptors: Correlation, Creativity, Language Skills, Receptive Language
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Zhao, Qian; Yu, Liang; Yang, Yanqing – English Language Teaching, 2014
Metaphoric competence is an essential part of language concept fluency and communicative competence. Since metaphor is pervasive in language, when Chinese second language (L2) learners are engaged in reading process, one of the barriers to influence their comprehension is metaphor. This paper aims to empirically investigate the relationship…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Figurative Language, Reading Skills, Correlation
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Glennen, Sharon – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2014
Purpose: The author followed 56 internationally adopted children during the first 3 years after adoption to determine how and when they reached age-expected language proficiency in Standard American English. The influence of age of adoption was measured, along with the relationship between early and later language and speech outcomes. Method:…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adoption, English, Language Proficiency
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Pae, Hye K.; Greenberg, Daphne – Reading Psychology, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between receptive and expressive language skills characterized by the performance of nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English in the academic context. Test scores of 585 adult NNSs were selected from Form 2 of the Pearson Test of English Academic's field-test database. A correlated…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Expressive Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam – English Language Teaching, 2015
In recent years, a number of studies have attempted to assess the English vocabulary knowledge of high-school students and undergraduate university students in contexts where English is a foreign language (EFL). The present paper explores the lexical development of Arab undergraduates at a Saudi University where EFL is the medium of instruction.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Vocabulary, Second Language Learning
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Harsch, Claudia; Hartig, Johannes – Language Testing, 2016
Placement and screening tests serve important functions, not only with regard to placing learners at appropriate levels of language courses but also with a view to maximizing the effectiveness of administering test batteries. We examined two widely reported formats suitable for these purposes, the discrete decontextualized Yes/No vocabulary test…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Secondary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Student Placement
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Jones, Christian; Waller, Daniel – TESOL International Journal, 2017
This article reports on a quasi-experimental study investigating the effectiveness of two different teaching approaches, explicit teaching and explicit teaching combined with textual and aural input enhancement used to teach lexical items to elementary level learners of Turkish in a higher education context. Forty participants were divided into…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
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Kelley, Michael F.; Roe, Mary; Blanchard, Jay; Atwill, Kim – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2015
This investigation examined the influence of varying levels of Spanish receptive vocabulary and phonemic awareness ability on beginning English vocabulary, phonemic awareness, word reading fluency, and reading comprehension development across kindergarten through second grade. The 80 respondents were Spanish speaking children with no English…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Emergent Literacy, Reading Improvement, Reading Fluency
Elisa B. Garcia – Grantee Submission, 2018
Using a nationally representative sample of dual language learners (DLLs) attending Head Start, this study investigated how the language used for instruction and the proportion of DLLs in the class was associated with English and Spanish receptive vocabulary development between the fall and spring (n = 531). Based on teacher report of the language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Biria, Reza; Boshrabadi, Abbas Mehrabi; Nikbakht, Elham – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Human cognitive competence represents individuals' subconscious knowledge of abilities, talents, and mental skills collectively called "multiple intelligences (MIs)", which play a pivotal role in facilitating human learning. Thus, the main objective of the present study was to determine the magnitude of the relationship existing between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiple Intelligences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Stewart, Jeffrey – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
Validated under a Rasch framework (Beglar, 2010), the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) (Nation & Beglar, 2007) is an increasingly popular measure of decontextualized written receptive vocabulary size in the field of second language acquisition. However, although the validation indicates that the test has high internal reliability, still unaddressed…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Vocabulary, Language Tests, Receptive Language
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