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Baker, Elizabeth A.; Bradley, Chelsea – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
Hey Siri, Alexa, Google, can you help me learn to read? Speech recognition apps can take dictation. Elementary, middle, high school students, and adults, who struggle to read can dictate to speech recognition apps and see their oral vernacular become written words. However, at the time of this study, speech recognition apps remained notoriously…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Vocabulary Skills, Computer Software, Audio Equipment
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Pinar, Yunus; Ünal, Fatma; Pinar, Nihal Kubilay – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
In this study, we examine the mother tongue proficiency of pre-school children from high-income and highly educated families in Antalya, Turkey. The study used the Turkish version of the Hamburger Instrument for the Analysis of the Language Level of 5-year olds (HAVAS 5) linguistic-level diagnostic tool that is originally employed to form the…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Advantaged, Preschool Children, Turkish
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Natova, Ivanka – Language Learning Journal, 2021
The purpose of this article is to present qualitative and quantitative tools to assist teachers and authors of examination materials in their preliminary assessment of text complexity/difficulty according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The qualitative scales were compiled specially for this study, based on previous…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rating Scales, Guidelines
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Fioravanti, Irene; Senaldi, Marco Silvio Giuseppe; Lenci, Alessandro; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna – Second Language Research, 2021
The present investigation focuses on first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers' sensitivity to lexical fixedness and compositionality of Italian word combinations. Two studies explored language users' intuitions about three types of word combinations: free combinations, collocations, and idioms. In Study 1, Italian Verb+Noun…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Italian, Phrase Structure
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Tejada, Kristoffer Conrad M. – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The study investigated the non-intellective correlates affecting the sociolinguistic competence of teacher education students, with a focus on the analysis of their contexts relative to social experiences, language attitude, and use of linguistic forms in different situations. It also determined the common difficulties they experience in the use…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alhusban, Hamdallah A.; Torki, Saad – TESOL International Journal, 2021
This paper presents a novel methodology to determine textbook readability. The method mainly relies on students' lexical coverage to determine the readability level of textbooks, taking into consideration that readability depends primarily on vocabulary knowledge and that it is a function of lexical coverage in teaching English as a Foreign…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Readability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gavenila, Euodia Inge; Wulandari, Mega; Renandya, Willy A. – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2021
Extensive listening (EL) is an approach to teaching listening which can help students develop their listening fluency in a more enjoyable way. However, unlike extensive reading which has now enjoyed widespread recognition, EL has received relatively little attention, partly because of the limited availability of suitable listening materials. Given…
Descriptors: Speeches, Teaching Methods, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning
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Wongkhan, Prueksa; Thienthong, Atikhom – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
It is generally accepted that collocation is essential for establishing synonymy. They are related linguistic features which are important and useful for language learners. Given this importance, this present study considered the experience of 120 Thai English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. The study explored the students' knowledge of…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hasanudin, Cahyo; Fitrianingsih, Ayu – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This study aimed to describe seven indicators of students' verbal linguistic intelligence in reading subject. It used a qualitative research method. The subjects of this study were 30 students consisted of 9 male and 21 female students. They took the reading subject in the second semester of the first year. They were given a test of…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Intelligence, Content Analysis, Reading Ability
Kim, Young-Suk Grace – Grantee Submission, 2020
I propose an integrative theoretical framework for reading and writing acquisition, called the interactive dynamic literacy model, after reviewing theoretical models of reading and writing, and recent efforts in integrating theoretical models within reading and writing, respectively. The central idea of the interactive dynamic literacy model is…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Literacy, Reading Writing Relationship, Models
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Stokes, Stephanie F.; Klee, Thomas; Kornisch, Myriam; Furlong, Lisa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Background: Recent studies indicate that school-age children's patterns of performance on measures of verbal and visuospatial short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) differ across types of neurodevelopmental disorders. Because these disorders are often characterized by early language delay, administering STM and WM tests to toddlers could…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Short Term Memory, Preschool Children, Toddlers
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Liu, Haitao; Jin, Huiyuan – British Journal of Special Education, 2017
Deaf individuals usually face more challenges in reading and writing, because they are often deprived of adequate spoken input from their infancy. Research on the language features of deaf individuals' writing is abundant. However, their language structures have as yet been unexplored. In order to address this subject, this article uses the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Writing (Composition), Deafness, Vocabulary Skills
Nation, Paul – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
In this article Paul Nation responds to Thomas Cobb's "Numbers or Numerology? A Response to Nation (2014) and McQuillan (2016)" (EJ1117024). Nation begins by clarifying his own position on vocabulary learning and goes on to highlight points made in Cobb's article with which he is in agreement, while drawing from his 2014 article,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Word Study Skills, Time Factors (Learning), Learner Engagement
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Guo, Yanyu – Second Language Research, 2022
This article reports on an empirical study on the acquisition of Chinese imperfective markers ("zai," "-zhe[subscript P]" and "-zhe[subscript R]") by English-speaking learners at three proficiency levels. Compared to English, Chinese has a richer imperfective aspect in terms of markers (forms) and features (meanings).…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English
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Inoue, Tomohiro; Zhang, Su-Zhen; Georgiou, George K. – Educational Psychology, 2022
We examined the developmental relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills (nonverbal IQ, vocabulary, phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming [RAN]), home environment factors (direct teaching, shared book reading, access to literacy resources, parents' expectations, family's socioeconomic status [SES]), and pinyin letter knowledge in…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Family Environment, Phonological Awareness, Direct Instruction
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