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Kalaitzi, Christina; Panos, Spiros – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This paper aims to investigate to what extent preschoolers' narrative speech can be affected by the combined use of five narrative elements: narrative framing, narrative basic structure, intertextual hero, plot subversion and image-text interaction. It presents an intervention aiming to teach these elements to an experimental group of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Comparative Analysis, Preschool Children, Narration
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Regina Hert; Anja Arnhold; Juhani Järvikivi – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Studies on young children's comprehension have shown that children can experience problems interpreting object pronouns, even when reflexive interpretation is already adult-like. Compared to resolving reflexives, linking pronouns to a referent is considered a more "intensive" process, because it also involves non-syntactic factors like…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages)
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Jevtovic, Mina; Stoehr, Antje; Klimovich-Gray, Anastasia; Antzaka, Alexia; Martin, Clara D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Effects related to literacy acquisition have been observed at different levels of speech processing. This study investigated the link between orthographic knowledge and children's perception and production of specific speech sounds. Method: Sixty Spanish-speaking second graders, differing in their phonological decoding skills, completed a…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Emergent Literacy, Task Analysis, Decoding (Reading)
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Zhongdi Wu; Eric Larson; Makoto Sano; Doris Baker; Nathan Gage; Akihito Kamata – Grantee Submission, 2023
In this investigation we propose new machine learning methods for automated scoring models that predict the vocabulary acquisition in science and social studies of second grade English language learners, based upon free-form spoken responses. We evaluate performance on an existing dataset and use transfer learning from a large pre-trained language…
Descriptors: Prediction, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chen, Aleck Shih-wei – Second Language Research, 2021
This article reports a study examining whether foreign language (FL) word learning can be improved with reduction in cognitive load. Cognitive load theory has received substantial supports in various fields of learning but never in FL word learning. Due to the defined poverty in exposure to the FL, hence deprived cognitive pre-requisites for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
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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