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Kevin Wheldall; Robyn Wheldall – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2024
In this paper, Emeritus Professor Kevin Wheldall AM, who received the Eminent Researcher Award of this journal in 2023, describes his research over the past five decades, together with his wife and research partner Dr Robyn Wheldall. Following a biographical sketch, selected research is reviewed successively over five decades on language,…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Educational Research, Language Acquisition, Receptive Language
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Mister, Bianca – English Australia Journal, 2023
Facilitating the transformation of vocabulary from receptive to productive can be challenging for second language (L2) teachers. Although some studies have focused on understanding activities that promote productive vocabulary in written modes (e.g., Teng & Xu, 2022), little is known about the effect of activities on productive vocabulary in…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Models, Oral Language
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Strasser, Margareta; Reissner, Christina – AILA Review, 2022
Since the late 1990s the notion of a plurilingual and pluricultural competence as elaborated by Coste, Moore and Zarate (1997) has had a strong impact on the didactics of languages. Several plural approaches have been developed which aim at developing competences in several languages and/or cultures (Melo-Pfeifer & Reimann, 2018; Reissner,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Geist, Lori; Erickson, Karen – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Robust vocabulary instruction is an important part of comprehensive English language arts (ELA) instruction. Vocabulary instruction supports students in learning the meaning of words to build a receptive vocabulary that they can rely on to comprehend the words they read and hear. Many students with significant cognitive disabilities (SCD) and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Students with Disabilities, Severe Intellectual Disability, Receptive Language
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Whyte, Shona; Edmonds, Amanda; Palasis, Katerina; Gerbier, Emilie – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Language researchers and teachers have long been interested in the timing of learning, and the distributed practice effect, whereby greater inter-session intervals result in longer retention, is well-known (Kim & Webb, 2022). Many L2 studies have focused on the intentional learning of lexis (Edmonds, Gerbier, Palasis, & Whyte, 2021),…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes