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Nie, Bruce; Deacon, Hélène; Fyshe, Alona; Epp, Carrie Demmans – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
A child's ability to understand text (reading comprehension) can greatly impact both their ability to learn in the classroom and their future contributions to society. Reading comprehension draws on oral language; behavioural measures of knowledge at the word and sentence levels have been shown to be related to children's reading comprehension. In…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Word Order, Sentence Structure, Grade 3
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Sorenson Duncan, Tamara; Mimeau, Catherine; Crowell, Nikita; Deacon, S. Hélène – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The sentences in texts are far more complex and diverse than those that children commonly encounter in oral language. This raises interesting questions as to whether the understanding of some sentence types might be more important than others in children's reading comprehension. Accordingly, we examined the relation between children's reading…
Descriptors: Sentences, Correlation, Children, Elementary School Students
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Canals, Laia – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The present research explores the interactional nature of oral tasks carried out in two types of learner dyads in terms of their likelihood to foster negotiation for meaning during Language Related Episodes (LREs). Quantitative data analyses reveal how learners in same L1 dyads, Spanish English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, and in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Malec, Alesia; Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Elshereif, Heba – Canadian Journal of Education, 2017
A systematic review of research on oral language assessments for four-to-eight-year- old children was undertaken to support a six-year action research project aimed toward co-creating classroom oral language assessment tools with teachers in northern rural and Indigenous Canadian communities. Through an extensive screening process, 10 studies were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Oral Language, Language Tests
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Llanes, Àngels; Serrano, Raquel – Language Learning Journal, 2017
Given the growing importance of English as a lingua franca, this study examines which context (classroom instruction in the students' home country vs. studying abroad in an English-speaking country) better facilitates the acquisition of English by learners of different ages: children, adolescents and adults. Participants (N = 197) completed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Written Language
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Keilty, Megan; Harrison, Gina L. – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2015
Error analyses using a multidimensional measure were conducted on the misspellings of Kindergarten children speaking English as a first (EL1) and English as a second language (ESL) in order to detect any differences in early spelling ability between language groups. Oral vocabulary, syntactic knowledge, phonological processing, letter/word…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Spelling, Kindergarten, English (Second Language)
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Geva, Esther; Massey-Garrison, Angela – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
The overall objective of this article is to examine how oral language abilities relate to reading profiles in English language learners (ELLs) and English as a first language (EL1) learners, and the extent of similarities and differences between ELLs and EL1s in three reading subgroups: normal readers, poor decoders, and poor comprehenders. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Skills, English Language Learners, Decoding (Reading)
Demers, Monique – 1998
A study investigated the relationship between syntax, discourse, and suprasegmentals in reported utterances (e.g., "He said,..."). The study is intended as both theoretical and descriptive, specifically, proposing a model of intonation in spontaneous oral Quebec French. The first chapter reviews research on Quebec French prosody, on oral…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Intonation, Language Patterns
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McIntyre, Laureen J.; Hellsten, Laurie-ann M. – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2004
Research has demonstrated that poor readers may demonstrate a variety of language deficits (e.g., Adams, 1990), and children with language difficulties have difficulty reading later in life (e.g., Catts, Fey, Zhang, & Tomblin, 1999). Teachers are likely to be faced with the challenge of implementing programming to meet the needs of children…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Preservice Teachers, Phonology, Semantics