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Johnson, Mckenna – Infants and Young Children, 2021
This review addresses the question of how early access to sign language influences the development of deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) by examining the literature surrounding the topic across the domains of spoken/written language development, cognitive development, and sociocultural development. Although research in the realm of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Assistive Technology, Sign Language, Language Acquisition
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Grushkin, Donald A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2017
Signed languages around the world have tended to maintain an "oral," unwritten status. Despite the advantages of possessing a written form of their language, signed language communities typically resist and reject attempts to create such written forms. The present article addresses many of the arguments against written forms of signed…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Written Language, History, Orthographic Symbols
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Yang, Jinsuk – Language Policy, 2017
Using media texts from a Korean newspaper archive, this article describes the process through which the state took up the ideology of linguistic nationalism during the period of Japanese colonisation of Korea (1910-1945). This was particularly aimed at a modernisation project in order for the legacy of the Joseon dynasty, which had ruled Korea for…
Descriptors: Asian History, Ideology, Land Settlement, Korean
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Biber, Douglas; Gray, Bethany; Staples, Shelley – Applied Linguistics, 2016
In the present article, we explore the extent to which previous research on register variation can be used to predict spoken/written task-type variation as well as differences across score levels in the context of a major standardized language exam (TOEFL iBT). Specifically, we carry out two sets of linguistic analyses based on a large corpus of…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Scores, Standardized Tests, Language Tests
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Westby, Carol; Wilson, Deborah – Topics in Language Disorders, 2017
This review article starts with an overview of changing education paradigms and the literature on cognitive and linguistic relationships in imaginative play related to comprehension of oral and written texts. Strategies for developing the cognitive and linguistic foundations for text comprehension through play are described. A review of current…
Descriptors: Imagination, Play, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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Traxler, John – Research in Learning Technology, 2018
This paper is the first attempt to explore digital literacy in the specific context of the Palestinian refugee community in the Middle East by looking at the cultural specificity of digital literacy theorising and practice, by analysing current digital education policy in the countries hosting the Palestinian refugee community and by documenting…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Ruitenberg, Claudia – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2014
Based on archival research, this article analyses the pedagogical gestures in Derrida's (largely unpublished) lectures on hospitality (1995/96), with particular attention to the enactment of hospitality in these gestures. The motivation for this analysis is twofold. First, since the large-group university lecture has been widely critiqued as…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Teaching Methods, Interpersonal Relationship, Educational Environment
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Toyoda, Etsuko – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
The paper reviewed studies in word-level processing skills and related areas, and profiled how the development of L2 word recognition and integration skills would contribute to autonomous "kango" (Chinese originated words or words created from Chinese originated words) vocabulary learning. Despite the fact that the acquisition of a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Web Sites, Dictionaries
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Koda, Keiko – Language Learning, 2007
The ultimate goal of reading is to construct text meaning based on visually encoded information. Essentially, it entails converting print into language and then to the message intended by the author. It is hardly accidental, therefore, that, in all languages, reading builds on oral language competence and that learning to read uniformly requires…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Languages, Reading Research, Linguistic Theory
Tzeng, Ovid J. L. – 1994
Recent research on Chinese orthography is reviewed in a discussion of the relationship between orthographic symbols and reading processes. Specifically, these issues are addressed with relation to research findings: the difficulty of learning Chinese logographs, particularly with regard to learning disabilities and biliteracy; whether reading in…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Chinese, Foreign Countries, Language Processing
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Ng, Franklin – Amerasia Journal, 1993
The history of the Hmong people of Southeast Asia is based mainly on oral traditions, and until recent decades there was no written Hmong language. With the introduction of writing, a new view of history is beginning to emerge, as demonstrated by college student term papers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, College Students, Folk Culture, Higher Education
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Tzeng, Ovid J. L.; Singer, Harry – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Analyzes a report by D.D. Steinberg and J. Yamada that investigated which of the different types of scripts used in Japanese writing was the easiest to learn to read. (MKM)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Elementary Education