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Alsultan, Riham – International Journal of the Whole Child, 2022
Phonological awareness (PA) is a word that has recently gained currency in the field of early literacy instruction. There is a large corpus of research on how to teach PA to young language learners. In spite of these relevant data, there is a dearth of literacy information on PA in Arabic, especially targeting Saudi students. The focus of this…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Arabic, Kindergarten, Teaching Methods
J. Riikka Ahokas; Suvi Saarikallio; Graham Welch; Tiina Parviainen; Jukka Louhivuori – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study investigated whether enhanced rhythm training improves literacy development and working memory performance in pupils in the first and second year of school. According to recent literature, we hypothesized that rhythm-focused training could be effective for children with reading difficulties. Pupils aged 6 to 8 years participated in the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Music Education, Music
Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study tested the effects of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French words on the pronunciation of these words by 7- to 8-year-old Catalan children. In a short training experiment with a pre- and posttest design, 28 children either repeated cognate words in French (e.g. French "aspirateur," Catalan "aspirador"…
Descriptors: French, Language Rhythm, Motor Reactions, Pronunciation
Dallacqua, Ashley K. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
This article draws from a year-long ethnographic study documenting the use of comics in a school. Focusing on literacy work in a social studies classroom, it documents how comics were welcomed into and challenged classroom spaces. Comics were introduced, read, and engaged with collaboratively. While comics were able to support strategic practices,…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Language Rhythm
Carpenter, Lauren B. – Classroom Discourse, 2023
Conversation analysis (CA) has been used for interventionist purposes in different fields, such as medicine, mediation services, and speech and language therapy, but it has yet to be fully utilised in teacher education. In this report, I describe how CA is used in teacher supervision to intervene with the development of a student-teacher (ST) in a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teacher Student Relationship, Intervention, Teaching Methods
Bolden, Benjamin; Beach, Pamela – General Music Today, 2021
This article builds on evidence-based teaching strategies to support a learning experience for third-grade students that integrates language and music. In the language-learning field, "prosody" refers to changes in volume, rhythm, and pitch that add expression and meaning when reading text aloud. When students incorporate prosodic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Learning Experience, Interdisciplinary Approach
López, Miriam Romero; Fernández, Montserrat López; Martínez, María Carmen Pichardo – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: The huge impact of technology in the last few decades, and the ample development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has established them as an essential characteristic of today's society. This vertiginous advance, and the quantity and diversity of changes in knowledge that are being generated, are inducing important…
Descriptors: Neurology, Physiology, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Campfield, Dorota E.; Murphy, Victoria A. – Language Learning Journal, 2017
This paper reports on an intervention study with young Polish beginners (mean age: 8 years, 3 months) learning English at school. It seeks to identify whether exposure to rhythmic input improves knowledge of word order and function words. The "prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis", relevant in developmental psycholinguistics, provided the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Suprasegmentals, Teaching Methods
Glavach, Matthew; Pribyl, Warren – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2018
The study presents a reading intervention for children having a variety of reading deficits. For this study it was found that most of the children had not responded positively to phonics instruction. Based on brain imaging studies, it has been shown that there are positive changes in the left brains of readers with dyslexia who receive phonemic…
Descriptors: Whole Language Approach, Reading Instruction, Language Rhythm, Phonics
Foley, Adam D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to develop a deeper understanding of aural and kinesthetic rhythm skill development in elementary school-age children. In this study, I examined my curriculum model for rhythm understanding, which included creating and implementing assessments of movement skills in meter and rhythm. The research questions were: 1.…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Motion, Elementary School Students, Aural Learning
Varnell, Matt – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of rhythm and tonality on an academic memory task by comparing three different treatment conditions: a poem, a rhythmic chant (or rap), and a melodic rhythm (or song). A quasi-experimental experiment was designed and implemented, specifically a pretest-posttest-posttest control-group design.…
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Rhythm, Pretests Posttests, Memory
Weber, Rose-Marie – Reading Teacher, 2008
Direct quotation can be a source of meaning in storybook texts for beginning readers. The author of this article sketches the linguistic complexity of direct quotation and offers instructional strategies. Three aspects of direct quotation are examined: the cluster of print features and syntactic characteristics that direct quotation involves, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Oral Reading, Semantics, Text Structure