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Megan Barnes Ross; Trevor F. Stokes – Education and Treatment of Children, 2024
The current study conducted a comparative analysis of the effects of select components of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, labeled praise, behavior descriptions, and reflections on child vocalizations in two children with autism spectrum disorder and accompanying language delays using a concurrent multiple baseline across participants design. The…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Therapy, Child Behavior, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Dannielle Hibshman; Ellyn A. Riley – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Persons with aphasia (PWA) experience differences in attention after stroke, potentially impacting cognitive/language performance. This secondary analysis investigated physiologically measured vigilant attention during linguistic and nonlinguistic processing in PWA and control participants. Method: To evaluate performance and attention in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Aphasia, Attention
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Valentina Bambini; Giacomo Ranieri; Luca Bischetti; Biagio Scalingi; Chiara Bertini; Irene Ricci; Walter Schaeken; Paolo Canal – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Psycholinguistic research on metaphor has focused on verbal material. Yet, metaphors frequently occur in a multimodal format, blending words and pictures to convey meaning. Here we compared verbal and multimodal metaphors by using item pairs where stimulus one was always a word (e.g., "language" in the metaphorical conditions and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis
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Caroline Caregnato; Ronaldo da Silva; Cristiane Hatsue Vital Otutumi; Luciano Jeyson Santos da Rocha – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Sight-singing and musical dictation are considered as complementary activities by different Ear Training pedagogues but, surprisingly, studies conducted with participants working individually were not able to find benefits of singing associated with dictation taking. This pilot study aims at observing the effect of a sight-singing, performed…
Descriptors: Music Education, Singing, Cooperative Learning, Comparative Analysis
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Helena S. Belío-Apaolaza; Natividad Hernández Muñoz – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The acquisition of communicative competence in second and foreign languages requires the incorporation of verbal and non-verbal elements. Notwithstanding, few studies have performed empirical research into the acquisition of non-verbal signs. This research studies the learning of emblematic gestures for students of Spanish in the USA using an…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication
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Ludwig Bilz; Saskia M. Fischer; Julia Kansok-Dusche; Sebastian Wachs; Alexander Wettstein – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Despite ongoing global efforts to combat discrimination, hate speech is a growing problem in many countries. Hate speech is also widespread among young people and thus also affects schools. Because of the negative consequences of hate speech for the targeted individuals and for society in general, schools and teachers are generally encouraged to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Intervention, Antisocial Behavior, Self Efficacy
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Madelon van den Boer; Elise H. de Bree – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: Children make spelling errors despite classroom instruction on phoneme-grapheme connections and spelling rules. We examined whether additional practice helps to decrease the number of spelling errors for a morphological spelling rule. We distinguished explicit practice in applying a spelling rule from implicit exposure to correct word…
Descriptors: Spelling, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Task Analysis
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Kuo-Wei Kyle Lai; Hao-Jan Howard Chen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology affords language learners the ability to evaluate their pronunciation accuracy by comparing their intended spoken output with the transcribed text produced by ASR-based dictation applications. However, earlier dictation tools were criticized for producing low level recognition rates for non-native…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, Assistive Technology
Jechun An – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students' responses to Word Dictation curriculum-based measurement (CBM) in writing tend to include a lot of missing values, especially items not reached due to the three-minute test time limit. A large amount of non-ignorable not-reached responses in Word Dictation can be considered using alternative item response theory (IRT) approaches. In…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Elementary School Students, Writing Difficulties, Writing Evaluation