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Wong, Wing Sze Winsy; Law, Sam Po – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between nonverbal cognitive functions and language processing of people with aphasia (PWA) by taking a data-driven approach, as well as multiple cognitive components and multilevel linguistic perspectives. It is hypothesized that language performance is differentially associated with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Correlation, Attention Control, Short Term Memory
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Song, Shuxian; Li, Dechao – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Cognitive factors have been recognised as important in the interpreting process, but whether they could serve as valid components of interpreting aptitude still awaits further investigation. This study explores the predictive value of cognitive fluency in the simultaneous interpreting (SI) performance of trainee interpreters. Cognitive fluency…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Fluency, Psycholinguistics, Language Aptitude
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Liu, Duo; Chung, Kevin K. H.; McBride, Catherine – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
The present study investigated the relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and word reading in both Chinese (L1) and English (L2), with children's cognitive/linguistic skills considered as mediators and/or moderators. One hundred ninety-nine Chinese kindergarteners in Hong Kong with diverse SES backgrounds participated in this study. SES…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lin, Dan; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Aram, Dorit; Levin, Iris – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
The present study examined the relations of Chinese word reading and writing to both maternal mediation of writing and a number of metalinguistic and cognitive skills in 63 Hong Kong Chinese kindergarteners. The whole process of maternal mediation of writing, in which mothers individually facilitated their children's writing of 12 two-character…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Mothers, Metalinguistics, Phonological Awareness
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Gan, Zhengdong – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
This study, which is part of a large-scale study of using objective measures to validate assessment rating scales and assessment tasks in a high-profile school-based assessment initiative in Hong Kong, examined how grammatical complexity measures relate to task type and analytic evaluations of students' speaking proficiency in a classroom-based…
Descriptors: Validity, Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning