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Strong, Gemma K.; Torgerson, Carole J.; Torgerson, David; Hulme, Charles – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Background: Fast ForWord is a suite of computer-based language intervention programs designed to improve children's reading and oral language skills. The programs are based on the hypothesis that oral language difficulties often arise from a rapid auditory temporal processing deficit that compromises the development of phonological…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Control Groups, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
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Macleod, Flora J.; Macmillan, Philip; Norwich, Brahm – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
There is now a renewed emphasis in the UK on short intensive interventions to tackle reading failure. In this paper we report on the effect of a programme based on a view that reading problems are associated with the inability of the learner to deal with speech at the level of individual speech sounds even though they may be fully competent in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students, Intervention, Age
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Ellis, Rod; Loewen, Shawn; Erlam, Rosemary – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
This article reviews previous studies of the effects of implicit and explicit corrective feedback on SLA, pointing out a number of methodological problems. It then reports on a new study of the effects of these two types of corrective feedback on the acquisition of past tense -ed. In an experimental design (two experimental groups and a control…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Experimental Groups, Control Groups