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Keeley Dobinson; Sandra Mathers; Claire Forrest; Jenna Charlton; Julie Dockrell – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
Background: Oral language competence provides children with an essential foundation for academic achievement and emotional well-being, yet many children enter school with delayed language and those living in economically disadvantaged areas are at disproportionate risk of experiencing language difficulties. A tiered system, offering high-quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Quality
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María Díez-Ortega; Kristopher Kyle – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Research has indicated that lexical richness is an important indicator of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most research has examined written, cross-sectional English L2 corpora and does not necessarily indicate how spoken lexical use develops over time or whether observed trends are stable across L2s. This study adds to previous…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Language Proficiency
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Kristopher Kyle; Hakyung Sung; Masaki Eguchi; Fred Zenker – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Although lexical diversity is often used as a measure of productive proficiency (e.g., as an aspect of lexical complexity) in SLA studies involving oral tasks, relatively little research has been conducted to support the reliability and/or validity of these indices in spoken contexts. Furthermore, SLA researchers commonly use indices of lexical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Validity
Elizabeth Erickson-DenHartigh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the actual versus perceived knowledge of oral language development strategies among early years teachers in international schools. Employing Prestwich's (2012) "Teacher's Knowledge of Oral Language Development" (TKOLD) survey, it assesses teachers' knowledge in critical areas such as promoting extended…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Fatma Yaman; Brian Hand – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
This study aims to investigate the relationship between written and oral reasoning in an undergraduate chemistry laboratory course as part of an argument-based inquiry approach, which is also a generative learning environment, known as the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH). The study employed the data-transformation variant of convergent design of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Laboratories, Chemistry
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Beth Shingles; Cecilia Sinclair; Tessa Weadman; Shiralee Poed; Pamela Snow; Tricia Eadie; Judy Connell; Sharon Goldfeld; Jon Quach – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2024
In this paper, we report the initial stages of Response to Intervention (RTI) implementation in one school that participated in the Getting it Right from the Start (GIRFTS) pilot study. Implementation of an RTI framework for oral language and reading was supported by teacher professional learning and a dedicated Implementation Support Partner…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Oral Language, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Leila Gholami – Language Teaching Research, 2024
An extensive number of corrective feedback (CF) studies have examined learners' errors with grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling (non-formulaic forms) and established an association between learners' uptake of CF and their second language development. However, learners' errors with formulaic sequences (FSs) comprising idioms,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Second Language Instruction
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Xiaoqin Shi; Nini Qu; Xiaoyuan Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Spoken English Competency (SEC) remains a critical weakness in English Proficiency (EP) of Chinese college students, particularly when compared with their English competency in writing and reading. Despite years of English learning since elementary school, Chinese college students often struggle to master SEC. Although previous studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Needs, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Fiona Maine – Education 3-13, 2024
This article takes stock of the current trends in research, policy and practice regarding the role of language in the dialogic classroom. The article uses the policies of two different educational jurisdictions as counterpoints to highlight the different ways that oral language can be positioned within primary curricula. It reflects on current and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Trend Analysis, Educational Research, Educational Policy
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Nor Sanak Mohd Nabil; Hasniza Nordin; Faizahani Ab Rahman – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore how the integration of augmented reality (AR) filters into English as a second language (ESL) can enhance speaking fluency teaching. The study sheds light on how AR filter can be best implemented in speaking fluency teaching by the innovative opportunities to transform language learning experiences. In this…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Madison, Erin M.; Fulton, Erika K. – Metacognition and Learning, 2022
Metacomprehension refers to the ability to monitor and control reading comprehension. It is important for individuals to be accurate in their judgments of comprehension, as this can affect academic performance. One type of accuracy, relative accuracy, tends to be low, meaning individuals cannot adequately differentiate well-known from less…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Accuracy, Learning Modalities
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van der Wilt, Femke; van der Veen, Chiel; Michaels, Sarah – Journal of Educational Research, 2022
In the present study, it was hypothesized that the proportion of open questions teachers ask during shared book reading would be directly and indirectly (through class aggregated mean length of utterance) related to children's vocabulary and would be directly and indirectly (through class aggregated mean length of children's utterance and…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary Development, Language Skills
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Chung, Wei-Lun; Yang, Hui-Chun – Infant and Child Development, 2022
The study examined storytelling prosody (i.e., prosodic variations in retelling a story) and the relation with oral language in Taiwanese preschool children. One hundred and twenty-eight preschool children aged 4 and 5 were recruited and given the following tasks: nonverbal intelligence, vocabulary, syntax, and storytelling prosody. Children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Suprasegmentals, Oral Language
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Spino, LeAnne L.; Echevarría, Megan M.; Wu, Yu – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview--computer (OPIc) employs a self-assessment instrument to determine the nature of the speaking prompts to which the test taker will respond and, thus the difficulty of the test. Grounded in research demonstrating varying levels of accuracy in self-assessment among language learners, this study examines the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Formanova, Svitlana; Yeremenko, Tetiana; Melnychenko, Halyna; Gerkerova, Oleksandra; Radkina, Valentina; Meniailo, Viktoriia; Bloshchynskyi, Ihor – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
The research built on the anthropological approach to text comprehension links philosophical and psycholinguistic perspectives of speech perception. The article analyzes the factors influencing adequate comprehension when perceiving foreign language oral speech, in terms of testees' approximately similar level of language competence and…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception, Oral Language
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