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A Systematic Review of Orthographic Learning via Self-Teaching
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Li, Yixun; Wang, Min – Educational Psychologist, 2023
Orthographic learning is the process that supports children in becoming skilled word readers. How orthographic learning occurs has been one of the central questions in the scientific studies of reading. The present systematic review focuses on experimental studies of orthographic learning via self-teaching. It explains and discusses the…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Learning Processes, Independent Study, Written Language
Chinese Language and Students' Mathematics Learning: A Meta-Analysis
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Lu, Hong; Leung, Frederick K. S.; Fan, Zhengcheng – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
Research has revealed the extent and mechanism of the relation between language (dominated by alphabetic systems) and students' mathematics learning, but when it comes to Chinese language (an orthographic system), nature remains elusive. In this meta-analysis we aim to quantify the size of the relation between Chinese language and mathematics and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Processes, Meta Analysis
A Meta-Analysis on the Correlations between Statistical Learning, Language, and Reading Outcomes
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Ren, Jinglei; Wang, Min; Arciuli, Joanne – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this meta-analytic review is to investigate the relation between statistical learning (SL) and language-related outcomes, and between SL and reading-related outcomes. A comprehensive search of peer-reviewed published research resulted in 42 articles with 53 independent samples and 201 reported effect sizes (Pearson's r). Results of…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Correlation, Reading Skills, Outcomes of Education
Written Corrective Feedback: A Review of Studies since Truscott (1996)
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Meng, Yuan-Yuan – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2013
Linguistic errors are pervasive in second language (L2) students' writing. Depending on their gravity, the errors may cause a minor degree of irritation to the reader or even lead to total communication breakdown. As such, errors have always been a major concern to both students and teachers, and error correction has also assumed a central…
Descriptors: Written Language, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction
The Concept of Delivery Applied to Modern Rhetoric.
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Ezell, Jeanne R. – 1990
Within the field of composition, classical rhetoric was re-discovered in the early 1960s; that interest has been for the most part confined to the first three of the five parts of classical rhetoric--invention, arrangement, and style--with memory and delivery being ignored or, at least, neglected. Recent interest in "the speaking-writing…
Descriptors: Discussion, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Beyond the Psycholinguistic Vise of Competence/Performance Theory: Why Study Metalinguistic Awareness?
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Templeton, Shane; Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1980
In its broadest sense, metalinguistic awareness refers to the study of or reflection upon language as an object--the form and structure of language rather than the content, the way in which the form expresses or relates to the message. One value of research on metalinguistic awareness lies in its potential for testing adult notions about the ways…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Enrichment