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Whyte, Shona; Edmonds, Amanda; Palasis, Katerina; Gerbier, Emilie – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Language researchers and teachers have long been interested in the timing of learning, and the distributed practice effect, whereby greater inter-session intervals result in longer retention, is well-known (Kim & Webb, 2022). Many L2 studies have focused on the intentional learning of lexis (Edmonds, Gerbier, Palasis, & Whyte, 2021),…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Ferraro, Mary F.; Doyle, Beverly A. – 1981
The study involving 12 learning disabled (LD) junior high school students investigated whether LD students with reading comprehension difficulties were deficient in syntactic abilities as compared to normal students. Syntactic and reading tests were administered to each student. Comparison of the scores between the two groups showed that LD Ss…
Descriptors: Grammatical Acceptability, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Cole, Martha – 1979
Language training for the non-verbal or language delayed child should utilize feedback to reinforce correct responses and should closely follow the syntactical development of normal children. The two basic areas of language training are receptive and expressive. Receptive language training includes attending and responding, following single phase…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Expressive Language, Feedback, Language Handicaps
Lee, Barbara B. – 1986
The paper reports on a study of the rate of language learning of 12 children aged 2 to 10 with severe to profound bilateral hearing losses. Intended to help deaf children learn spoken language at the same rate as average hearing Ss, the intervention stressed three qualities of linguistic information: (1) clarity, (2) appropriateness, and (3)…
Descriptors: Cued Speech, Deafness, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Gowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E. – 1977
Developmental trends in the effects of expectations regarding agent/action matches on judgments of sentence acceptability were investigated. Five sentences reflected expected relations ("harmonious") and five contradicted them ("contrary"). Twelve subjects each were in grades 4 through 8 during year 1; the same 60 subjects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Children, Grammar
Holdgrafer, Gary – 1993
An assessment battery, measuring multiple aspects of language, was administered to 29 children between 4 and 5 years of age who had been born prematurely. The children, who weighed less than 2,500 grams at birth after less than 37 weeks of gestation, were recruited from a cohort of children originally admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language, Foreign Countries