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Motsch, Hans-Joachim; Marks, Dana-Kristin – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2015
Lexicon Pirate was originally developed as a strategy intervention programme to treat lexical disorders of pre-school children. To evaluate the therapy's effectiveness for school-age students, a randomized controlled trial (RCT, N = 157) was conducted. Based on a pre--post-test design, the programme's impacts were compared with a control group…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Pretests Posttests, Experimental Groups
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Westerveld, Marleen F. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
There are few emergent literacy assessments available for bilingual children. This study investigated the usefulness of a screening battery of oral language and print-related measures as an assessment tool for bilingual Samoan-English speaking children. A total of 18 children were recruited from three Samoan language immersion kindergartens (Aoga…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Speech Language Pathology
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Motsch, Hans-Joachim; Riehemann, Stephanie – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2008
Background: Disorders in the acquisition of morphological agreement phenomena, e.g. case marking, are characteristic of German children with specific language impairment (SLI). Although the success of individual therapy has already been documented, there are general doubts about the success of grammar facilitation in the classroom. Aims: To…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Language Impairments, Criticism