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Koutsoftas, Anthony D.; Srivastava, Pradyumn – Exceptionality, 2020
Purpose: Oral language plays a significant role in the development of reading and writing skills in intermediate grade students. Therefore, it is an important consideration for students receiving special education services for a language-based learning disability (LLD) through the public school system. The goal of this study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Students with Disabilities, Language Impairments, Reading Skills
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Özbay, Ali Sükrü – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2020
English contains a considerable number of lexical combinations with various forms and labels, making it an interesting field of inquiry for researchers. The significance and popularity of support verb constructions (SVC) is that they are used largely by native speakers and include some of the most common words in English but seem to be problematic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Native Speakers, English
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Alwazna, Rafat – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
Based on Mahboob and Elyas (World Engl 33(1):128-142, 2014), who identified an expanding circle variety of Englishes, known as 'Saudi English', the present paper addresses the consonantal variations between Formal English and a sub-variety of Saudi English, termed as 'Saudi Hijazi English'. The paper presents the specific consonants of Saudi…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Puglisi, Marina L.; Blasi, Helena F.; Snowling, Margaret J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: This study aimed to develop and validate a screening questionnaire for the early identification of language difficulties in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking preschool children. Method: The article is divided into two studies. In the first study, we reported the theoretical principles that guided the development of the Screening for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Screening Tests
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Kerry, Elaine – English Teaching Forum, 2020
In this article, Elaine Kerry describes the educational context and perspectives of International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB) Instructor Mohamed Lekrama. Kerry describes his beginnings as a Mauritania-born teacher, who first came to Cote d'Ivoire in 2017 after many classroom journeys of his own, what attracted him to IUGB and Cote d'Ivoire,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Oral Language, Universities, International Education
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Lee, Jeongmin; D'sa, Nikhit; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons – Literacy, 2020
Improving literacy outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa is a central focus of national governments, donors and non-governmental organisations alike, as evidenced by the inclusion of literacy as a target in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 4. Though significant international development funding has been devoted to teacher training in the…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Foreign Countries, Oral Language
Hruby, George G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Current conversations about children's literacy have focused on the need for more phonics and decoding instruction and have sidelined the importance of children's language development, argues George Hruby. Language development involves more than the ability to decode written language. The ability to understand the meaning of those words is also…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Language Arts, Language Acquisition, Literacy Education
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González Mesa, Pedro Alejandro – HOW, 2020
This article describes the implementation of digital storytelling in an English language class of eleventh graders at a private school in Mosquera, Colombia. It is a descriptive qualitative study, carried out for about six months by using digital tools to foster language production in the language learners. The implementation contained digital…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Blankenbeckler, Corrie – Global Education Review, 2020
Mother-tongue or first language (L1)-based multilingual education programs are necessarily complex and may require a more nonlinear approach to program design. These programs operate within and act upon a range of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and sociopolitical issues that include language structure and literacy assessment, language policy…
Descriptors: Program Design, Difficulty Level, Native Language, Multilingualism
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Kwok, M.; Vela, K. N.; Rugh, M. S.; Lincoln, Y. S.; Capraro, R. M.; Capraro, M. M. – Communication Education, 2020
Shared understanding is often achieved in communication interactions at the point in which the participants come to an agreement upon meaning. Without shared meaning, misunderstandings can lead to a breakdown in communication, and possibly failure on collaborative tasks. The purpose of the present study was to examine how students, preservice, and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Vocabulary, Classroom Communication, Communication Problems
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Lidia Federica Mazzitelli – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
This paper provides an introduction to Lakurumau, a previously undescribed and undocumented Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea. The first part of the paper is a guide to the Lakurumau documentation corpus, deposited in the ELAR archive. The participants and the content of the deposit, the technology used for recording, and the ethical protocols…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indonesian Languages, Native Language, Language Classification
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Gürsoy, Esim; Karakas, Ozan – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2018
Singing has been suggested to have a positive influence on the speech fluency of people with various neurological disorders, such as stuttering, aphasia, and autism. Again, research demonstrates the benefits of singing as a teaching method, through which many aspects of language can be taught or improved, such as grammar, vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Singing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Colletta, Jean-Marc; Pellenq, Catherine; Hadian-Cefidekhanie, Ali; Rousset, Isabelle – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This paper reports on an original study designed to investigate age-related change in the way French children produce speech during oral narrative, considering both prosodic parameters -- speaking rate and duration of the prosodic speech unit -- and linguistic structure. Eighty-five French children aged four to eleven years were asked to tell a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Articulation (Speech), Phonics
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Rhoades, Ellen A. – Volta Review, 2018
Advocates of bimodal bilingual (Bi-Bi) early intervention argue that both visual and auditory communication systems reflect optimal family and educational interactions for teachers, families, and their young children with hearing loss. The primary objective of this commentary is to highlight semantic variations noted in theoretical, ideological,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Hearing Impairments, Bilingual Education, Sign Language
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Kamiya, Nobuhiro – TESL-EJ, 2018
Second and foreign language teachers often say that they correct students' oral errors "naturally" in their classes. In fact, the operationalization of incidental oral corrective feedback also states that it arises "naturally" in a communicative task. This notion was confirmed in a study that I conducted with four ESL teachers…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Feedback (Response), Incidental Learning, Learning Processes
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