Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 3 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 5 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 7 |
Descriptor
| Form Classes (Languages) | 7 |
| Language Tests | 7 |
| Foreign Countries | 5 |
| Intelligence Tests | 5 |
| Verbal Ability | 5 |
| Vocabulary | 5 |
| Children | 3 |
| Elementary School Students | 3 |
| English (Second Language) | 3 |
| Grammar | 3 |
| Native Language | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| First Language | 3 |
| American Annals of the Deaf | 1 |
| International Journal of… | 1 |
| Journal of Research in Reading | 1 |
| Language Acquisition: A… | 1 |
Author
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 7 |
| Reports - Research | 7 |
| Tests/Questionnaires | 1 |
Education Level
| Elementary Education | 3 |
| Grade 5 | 1 |
| Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
| Belgium | 1 |
| Croatia | 1 |
| Italy | 1 |
| Turkey | 1 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Peabody Picture Vocabulary… | 7 |
| Clinical Evaluation of… | 1 |
| Expressive One Word Picture… | 1 |
| Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests | 1 |
| Kaufman Brief Intelligence… | 1 |
| Raven Progressive Matrices | 1 |
| Woodcock Language Proficiency… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkHržica, Gordana; Kuvac Kraljevic, Jelena – First Language, 2022
During narration, speakers constantly choose appropriate referential forms (nominals or pronominals). Children may engage in this reference marking differently than adults. Discourse- or listener-oriented approaches make different predictions about referential behaviour in cognitively demanding situations: the first predicts a higher number of…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Serbocroatian, Narration, Story Telling
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Ünlütabak, Burcu; Zengin, Betül Firdevs – First Language, 2021
This study investigates the effects of early second-language (L2) acquisition on introduction of characters in narrative discourse by comparing 5- and 7-year-old monolingual (first-language [L1] = Turkish) and bilingual (L1 = Turkish, L2 = English) children. Turkish does not have a grammaticalized article system like English which enables to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Native Language
Perovic, Alexandra; Wexler, Ken – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2018
This study investigates the knowledge of binding in 21 English-speaking children with SLI, aged 6;08-16;05, compared to 21 children with WS, language- and age-matched, and 21 language-matched control children, aged 4-7;10. Our results demonstrate no difficulties in the interpretation of reflexive or personal pronouns in SLI, revealing an intact…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Genetic Disorders, Children
Hendrikx, Isa; Van Goethem, Kristel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Languages differ in their preferences for particular intensifying constructions. While intensifying adjectival compounds (IACs) (e.g. "ijskoud, ice-cold") are productively used to express intensification in Dutch and English, in French this construction is hardly productive. Consequently, French-speaking learners may encounter…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Arosio, Fabrizio; Pagliarini, Elena; Perugini, Maria; Barbieri, Lina; Guasti, Maria Teresa – First Language, 2016
The study investigated morphosyntactic abilities and semantic-pragmatic competence in 24 children with developmental dyslexia aged 7-12 years. Morphosyntactic abilities were investgated in a direct object clitic production task, semantic-pragmatic competence in a quantifier comprehension task. Children with dyslexia produced fewer clitics than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Beal-Alvarez, Jennifer S.; Easterbrooks, Susan R. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
The Authors examined classifier production during narrative retells by 10 deaf and hard of hearing students in grades 2-4 at a day school for the deaf following a 6-week intervention of repeated viewings of stories in American Sign Language (ASL) paired with scripted teacher mediation. Classifier production, documented through a…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Form Classes (Languages), Pictorial Stimuli, Story Telling
Crosson, Amy C.; Lesaux, Nonie K. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
Connectives (e.g., although, meanwhile) carry abstract meanings and often signal key relationships between text ideas. This study explored whether understanding of connectives represents a unique domain of vocabulary knowledge that provides special leverage for reading comprehension, and whether the contribution of knowledge of connectives to…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
