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Darja Hoenigman – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
The practice of making string figures, often called cat's cradle, can be found all over the world and is particularly widespread in Melanesia. It has been studied by anthropologists, linguists and mathematicians. For the latter, the ordered series of moves and the resultant string figures represent cognitive processes that form part of a practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Folk Culture, Ethnic Groups, Oral Language
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Jiazhou Yao; Marianne Turner – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Interest in formal Nuosu Yi language programmes has been waning in Liangshan, China, even though Nuosu Yi continues to be widely spoken among Yi residents. In this paper, we adopt Hornberger (2004. "The Continua of Biliteracy and the Bilingual Educator: Educational Linguistics in Practice." "International Journal of Bilingual…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Francesco Romano; Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study investigated three key issues in heritage language (HL) research. Previous research shows HL speakers have an advantage on oral production tasks compared to L2 speakers who instead perform better on written tasks. Furthermore, both L2 and HL speakers are claimed to have a "yes-bias" towards retaining ungrammaticality in GJTs.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Heritage Education, Reaction Time, Second Language Learning
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Eric B. Claravall; Erica Walthall – Reading Teacher, 2024
It has been more than 50 years since Clay (1966) first introduced the concepts about print (CAP). Emergent readers, aged 4-5, must acquire an understanding of basic and hierarchical concepts of letters, words, and sentences; they must also learn basic knowledge about texts and books; they must develop an awareness of book orientation,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Literacy Education, Middle Class, Teaching Methods
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Julia J. Yi – Reading Psychology, 2024
This study examined the spoken language, written language, and executive functions of 19 female adolescents with high risk factors in a long-term, holistic program. Standardized assessment results revealed that 63.2% of the participants had below-average spoken language, 68.5% had below-average written language, and 68.4% and 42.1% had some level…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Adolescents, Females, Oral Language
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Yael Kimhi; Liat Kadosh; Gila Tubul-Lavy – Preventing School Failure, 2024
Oral retelling portrays what one understands from reading or listening to a text. The retold stories of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often show macrostructural (overall story structure) difficulties. The study's purpose was to compare macrostructure oral story retelling, after reading (visual modality) or listening (auditory…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Oral Language, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Theory of Mind
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Nur Ilianis Adnan; M. Arif Rahman Hakim; Anisha Sasidharan; Mohamad Jafre Zainol Abidin – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
English is widely used in the working environment globally. In Malaysia, many employers have English courses which relate to their job requirements. This is to help employees to become more competent, fluent, and confident in communicating in English while working. Besides academic qualifications, employers pay great attention to employees'…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Mitiku Tasisa Dinsa; Esayas Teshome Taddese – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2024
Social media is a communication tool that facilitates EFL students to improve their speaking proficiency as it enables them to fully engage in oral communication, exchange information, and form long-term bonds in this modern era. This study intended to investigate EFL students' social media as speaking strategies used vis-a-vis their speaking…
Descriptors: Social Media, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Maes, Pauline; Weyland, Marielle; Kissine, Mikhail – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
In many autistic children, speech onset is delayed and expressive language emerges after 3 years of age. We qualitatively and quantitatively describe oral productions of autistic preschoolers, including many non- or minimally speaking, recorded during interactions with a caregiver and with an experimenter. Data clustering on manually coded oral…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Preschool Children, Oral Language, Interpersonal Communication
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Steele, Carly; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Language and Education, 2023
Most Indigenous peoples live in urban and regional locations across Australia and no longer speak their traditional languages fluently. Instead contact languages, creoles and dialects, are widely spoken. In many educational settings, educators may know little about the first languages of the Indigenous children they teach, and not recognise these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Native Language, Dialects
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Maine, Fiona; Cermáková, Anna – Language and Education, 2023
Thinking together in primary classrooms has received much scholarly attention in recent years, with a focus on educational dialogue at the forefront of studies concerned with identifying what constitutes effective language for learning. Whilst the expression of explicit reasoning is often discussed, less attention has been given to the role that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Ethnography, Thinking Skills
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Greenfader, Christa Mulker – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
The early elementary years are foundational for future academic achievement, and, as the number of Latino students in U.S. schools continues to rise, more attention has been given to the academic performance of these young learners. Yet little is known about the cognitive skills, such as executive function (EF), that may underlie Latinos' academic…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement
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Tashi Wangchuk – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2023
Oral corrective feedback (OCF) plays an important role in language teaching and learning, but little research has examined Bhutanese teachers' practices of OCF on students' speaking performance and uptake. This paper reports on a mixed-method approach to investigate the rate of students' uptake on teachers' OCF within an ESL setting in Bhutanese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Error Correction
Wenyue Ma – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Foreign language placement testing, an important component in university foreign language programs, has received considerable, but not copious, attention over the years in second language (L2) testing research (Norris, 2004), and it has been mostly concentrated on L2 English. In contrast to validation research on L2 English placement testing, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Chinese, Student Placement, Placement Tests
Karen R. Harris; Young-Suk Kim; Soobin Yim; April Camping; Steve Graham – Grantee Submission, 2023
This randomized controlled trial with first- and second-grade students is the first experimental study addressing long-running disagreements about whether primary grade students should develop transcription and oral language abilities before learning to compose. It is also the first study at these grade levels to teach close reading (using science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Handwriting, Writing Skills
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