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Shergill, Gagan; Camozzi, Hailey; O'Malley, Meagan D.; Ortiz, Arlene – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
The Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, 2nd Edition (CTOPP-2; Wagner et al., 2013) is commonly used in k-12 public schools to assess basic cognitive processing skills foundational for reading achievement. Psychometric support for its use with dual language learners (DLLs), a group representing over 10% of the school-aged population in…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Processing, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Volpato, Francesca – First Language, 2020
Verbal working memory resources may impact syntax comprehension. Thirteen Italian children with cochlear implants (CIs) were assessed in relative clause (RC) comprehension, digit span and nonword repetition and compared to 13 chronological age peers (CA) and 13 younger controls (LA) with normal hearing (NH). The RC comprehension task tested…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory, Assistive Technology, Prediction
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Storkel, Holly L.; Komesidou, Rouzana; Pezold, Mollee J.; Pitt, Adrienne R.; Fleming, Kandace K.; Romine, Rebecca Swineburn – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: The goal was to determine whether interactive book reading outcomes for children with developmental language disorder (DLD) were affected by manipulation of dose (i.e., the number of exposures to the target word during a book reading session) and dose frequency (i.e., the number of repeated book reading sessions) and whether pretreatment…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Definitions, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments
Lederberg, Amy R.; Branum-Martin, Lee; Webb, Mi-young; Schick, Brenda; Antia, Shirin; Easterbrooks, Susan R.; Connor, Carol MacDonald – Grantee Submission, 2019
Better understanding of the mechanisms underlying early reading skills can lead to improved interventions. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine multivariate associations among reading, language, spoken phonological awareness, and fingerspelling abilities for three groups of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) beginning readers: those who…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Finger Spelling, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Damhuis, Carmen M. P.; Segers, Eliane; Scheltinga, Femke; Verhoeven, Ludo – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
We examined the effects of adaptive word retrieval intervention on a classroom vocabulary program on children's vocabulary acquisition in kindergarten. In the experimental condition, word retrieval was provided in a classroom vocabulary program, combining implicit and explicit vocabulary instructions. Children performed extra word retrieval…
Descriptors: Intervention, Vocabulary Development, Feedback (Response), Control Groups
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Baek, Seunghyun – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
This study investigated the sub-syllabic awareness of two groups of 86 Korean kindergarteners learning English as a foreign language (EFL) or English as a second language (ESL). In addition, it explored the cross-language transfer of sub-syllabic units between Korean and English by taking into account their lexical abilities with respect to the…
Descriptors: Syllables, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Cannock, Jennifer I.; Suárez, Betsy Y. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2014
The aim of this research was to establish the relationship between phonological awareness and lexical processes in reading. This study was correlational, longitudinal and its design was not experimental. Thirty six students from a public school in the city of Lima were assessed in two stages: kinder and 2nd grade. The Phonological Awareness…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Correlation, Language Processing, Reading Processes
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Marinova-Todd, Stefka H.; Zhao, Jing; Bernhardt, May – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
A number of studies have shown that bilingual children have an advantage when performing on phonological awareness tasks, particularly in their stronger language. Little research has been done to date, examining the effects of bilingualism on both languages of bilingual children. In this study Mandarin-English bilingual children's performance on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism, Mandarin Chinese