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Palacios, Rebecca A. – American Educator, 2023
Family engagement and family literacy are two of the most important or components for building a strong foundation for children's academic success. Family engagement is about spending quality time with children every day by talking, playing, and asking questions, which builds bonds and promotes language development. Family literacy supports…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family Literacy, Parent Child Relationship, Learner Engagement
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Foster, Pauline – Language Teaching, 2020
This paper reviews how the construct of oral fluency in a second language (L2) has been defined and researched over the last twenty-five years. The emerging picture is somewhat kaleidoscopic, as domains of cognitive, social, individual and linguistic influences on L2 speech have been opened up for study. L2 fluency research presents a wealth of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
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Baker, Amanda – English Australia Journal, 2021
Teaching and learning pronunciation can be challenging for second language (L2) teachers and learners alike. Many people may even adopt that attitude that, 'She'll be right', thinking that L2 learners' pronunciation difficulties will likely sort themselves out in time. Yet many learners consider pronunciation to be the most difficult oral…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Fowler, Samantha – NECTFL Review, 2022
Target language speaking competence is a skill both students and world language teachers desire to develop, yet it is often one of the weakest areas observed in secondary classrooms (Thompson & Mutton, 2022). To help improve student willingness to speak, educators should understand what intrinsically and extrinsically motivates learners. The…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
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Chie Ogawa – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2020
This article suggests three teaching ideas to help L2 learners improve speaking performances through form-focused instruction using formulaic language. Formulaic language is considered an effective way to foster speaking fluency because prefabricated chunks are faster to retrieve than constructing sentences word by word (Wray, 2002). In spite of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Learning Theories, Second Language Learning
Wanzek, Jeanne; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; McMaster, Kristen L. – Guilford Press, 2019
Packed with easy-to-use tools and resources, this book presents intensive intervention strategies for K-5 students with severe and persistent reading difficulties. Filling a key need, the authors describe specific ways to further intensify instruction when students continue to struggle. Chapters address all the fundamental components of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Needs
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Xu, Jing – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
In vocabulary research there has been a shift from focusing on single words to considering multiword sequences, such as collocations. Despite the general consensus among language researchers that collocation is essential to effective language use in real-world communication, particularly oral communication, language-testing researchers have made…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Becker, Carmen; Roos, Jana – Education Inquiry, 2016
The main focus of early foreign language learning in Europe is on the development of oral skills. In the classroom, speaking is usually reproductive and imitative and activities aim at the production of closely supported accurate output. Opportunities for young learners to experiment with the language and to use it productively outside of fixed…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Speech Communication, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
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Gill, Chamkaur – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper proposes that activities based on a variety of drama-based techniques could be valuable in giving Asian ESL learners opportunities to use communicative spoken English confidently and without restraint during their time in English-language-speaking countries. These learners often get anxious when in situations where they are required to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
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Steinman, Linda – TESL Canada Journal, 2013
Transitions in ESL contexts generally refer to those linking words placed between sentences and between paragraphs. Transitions in writing (and in speaking) are helpful; they facilitate coherence and cohesion when used correctly. Understanding them when reading allows us to join the writer in seeing why and how idea B follows idea A. In this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Connected Discourse
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Brand, Susan Trostle; Marchand, Jessica; Lilly, Elizabeth; Child, Martha – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2014
Combining home-school literacy bags with preschool family literature circles provided a strong foundation for family involvement at home and school during this year-long Reading Partners project, and helped parents become essential partners in their children's literacy development. Using home-school literacy bags, children and parents learned…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parent Participation, Home Study, Classroom Environment
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Razagifard, P. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
This paper reports on a study investigating the potential effect of synchronous and asynchronous text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) on oral fluency development of second-language (L2) learners. Sixty-three intermediate learners of English were randomly assigned to one of three groups (two experimental groups and one control group),…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, English (Second Language)
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Housen, Alex; Kuiken, Folkert; Vedder, Ineke – Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS), 2012
The theme of this volume, complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as dimensions of second language production, proficiency and development, represents a thriving area of research that addresses two general questions that are at the heart of many studies in second language acquisition and applied linguistics: What makes a second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Language Fluency
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Orwenjo, Daniel Ochieng – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
Arguments that have been advanced against multilingual education in Kenya and Africa in general are not new. Most post-colonial African governments have stuck to the pre-colonial education policies which have no relevance to the present day Africa and were, at best, guided by the interests of the colonial power. Unfortunately, most of the claims…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Foreign Policy
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Ockey, Gary – Language Learning, 2011
Drawing on current theories in personality, second-language (L2) oral ability, and psychometrics, this study investigates the extent to which self-consciousness and assertiveness are explanatory variables of L2 oral ability. Three hundred sixty first-year Japanese university students who were studying English as a foreign language participated in…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Assertiveness, Personality, Statistical Analysis
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