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Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – Cogent Education, 2022
This study aims to examine how Chinese learners develop in their use and misuse of English modal verbs from Grade 7 to 9. Specifically, it examines form-function connections and explores the factors behind learners' development. The main focus is on the modal verbs "can," "could," "will," "would,"…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Sidney, Pooja G.; Alibali, Martha W. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
This study investigated analogical transfer of conceptual structure from a prior-knowledge domain to support learning in a new domain of mathematics: division by fractions. Before a procedural lesson on division by fractions, fifth and sixth graders practiced with a surface analogue (other operations on fractions) or a structural analogue (whole…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Transfer of Training, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Bahr, Ruth Huntley; Silliman, Elaine R.; Danzak, Robin L.; Wilkinson, Louise C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
This study examined the Spanish and English spelling patterns of bilingual adolescents, including the cross-linguistic effects of each language, by applying a fine-grained measure to the differences in spelling in naturalistic writing. Spelling errors were taken from narrative and expository writing samples provided by 20 Spanish-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spelling, Expository Writing, Spanish