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Campbell, Tasha M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores Spanish nominal plural formation from a morphophonological perspective. The primary objective is to better understand heritage bilinguals' (HBs') phonological categorization of the morphological element of number in their heritage language. This is done by way of picture-naming elicitation tasks of consonant-final nouns…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Morphemes, Spanish, Nouns
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Kennedy, Eithne – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
While development of a range of cognitive skills and strategies is integral to the literacy process and strong attainment, students' motivation, engagement and self-confidence also exert a powerful influence on academic achievement. In recent times in the field of literacy there has been renewed interest in motivation, engagement and sense of…
Descriptors: Poverty, Disadvantaged Schools, Literacy, Student Motivation
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Malik, Sameena; Qin, Huanq; Oteir, Ibrahim; Soomro, Muhammad Arif – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
Speaking is an essential and fundamental aspect of human Language. By acquiring and learning language, individuals can speak and conversate with each other, transmit information and interact. However, in practical aspects, it is somehow, difficult for second and foreign language learners to practice English in their day-to-day life. Despite being…
Descriptors: Barriers, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning
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Saito, Kazuya; Webb, Stuart; Trofimovich, Pavel; Isaacs, Talia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This study examined contributions of lexical factors to native-speaking raters' assessments of comprehensibility (ease of understanding) of second language (L2) speech. Extemporaneous oral narratives elicited from 40 French speakers of L2 English were transcribed and evaluated for comprehensibility by 10 raters. Subsequently, the samples were…
Descriptors: Profiles, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Evaluators
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Volodina, Elena; Pilán, Ildikó; Alfter, David – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The paper describes initial efforts on creating a system for the automatic assessment of Swedish second language (L2) learner essays from two points of view: holistic evaluation of the reached level according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), and the lexical analysis of texts for receptive and productive vocabulary per CEFR…
Descriptors: Swedish, Second Language Learning, Classification, Essays
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Butler, Yuko Goto – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This study examines young English readers' ability to infer word meanings in context and to use metacognitive knowledge for constructing word meanings in relation to their reading performance. The participants were 61 fourth-grade students in the United States, comprising 24 monolingual English-speaking (ME) students and 37…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
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Akbari, Alireza – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2013
Choosing the near equivalence for translator is of great concern nowadays. While it seems more commitment has been given to this issue, yet there are still rooms for more attention to innovative methods of Translation Studies in this direction. The idea of wafting procedure in Intermediacy model of translation comes from a book by Alireza Akbari…
Descriptors: Translation, Models, English, German
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Román, Diego; del Rosal, Karla; Basaraba, Deni – Research in Science Education, 2019
Informal formative assessments (IFAs) are classroom interactions teachers use to gather information about their students' learning, interpret it, and act on this information to achieve academic goals. One of the responses science teachers can enact as the result of IFA is constructing explanations to clarify science concepts to their students.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Formative Evaluation, Learning Processes
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Quero, Betsy – TESOL International Journal, 2017
The main goal of this study is to report on the number of words (vocabulary load) native and non-native readers of medical textbooks written in English need to know in order to be able to meet the lexical demands of this type of subject-specific (medical) texts. For estimating the vocabulary load of medical textbooks, a corpus comparison approach…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Roivainen, Eka – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
Research on secular trends in mean intelligence test scores shows smaller gains in vocabulary skills than in nonverbal reasoning. One possible explanation is that vocabulary test items become outdated faster compared to nonverbal tasks. The history of the usage frequency of the words on five popular vocabulary tests, the GSS Wordsum, Wechsler…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Skills, Word Frequency, Language Usage, Change
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Bangs, Kathryn E.; Binder, Katherine S. – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2016
Adult Basic Education programs are under pressure to develop and deliver instruction that promotes rapid and sustained literacy development. We describe a novel approach to a literacy intervention that focuses on morphemes, which are the smallest meaningful units contained in words. We argue that if you teach learners that big words are comprised…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes
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Ozturk, Meral – Language Learning Journal, 2016
This study investigated the receptive vocabulary growth of advanced EFL learners in an English-medium degree programme. The study used the Vocabulary Size Test in a cross-sectional design to measure the vocabulary size of learners at various stages of study. The effect of word frequency on vocabulary development and the presence of an…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Foreign Countries
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Krishan, Tamara Mohd Altabieri – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study discusses the use of concept map tool as a new method for teaching translation (from English language to Arabic language). This study comprised 80 students divided into two groups. The first group was taught the new vocabulary by using the concept tool method, whereas the second group was taught the new vocabulary by the traditional…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Translation, Teaching Methods, English
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Shaalan, Saleh – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2017
This study describes the reliability and validity of four language tests: The Sentence Comprehension Test (SCT), the Expressive Language Test (ELT), the Sentence Repetition Test (SRT), and the Arabic Picture Vocabulary Test (APVT). These tests were administered to two groups of Qatari Arabic-speaking children: A typically developing group (n=81 to…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Language Tests, Expressive Language
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Raudszus, Henriette; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study compared how lexical quality (vocabulary and decoding) and executive control (working memory and inhibition) predict reading comprehension directly as well as indirectly, via syntactic integration, in monolingual and bilingual fourth grade children. The participants were 76 monolingual and 102 bilingual children (mean age 10 years,…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Prediction
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