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The Impact of Fast ForWord[R] on Sixth Grade Students' Use of Standard Edited American English
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Rogowsky, Beth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the impact of Fast ForWord[R] products, specifically Fast ForWord[R] Literacy (FFL) and Fast ForWord[R] Reading Level 2 (FFR2), on sixth grade students' use of Standard Edited American English (SEAE). Fast ForWord[R] is a computer-based program that focuses on phonological awareness and makes use of modeled…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Research Design
English Learning Predictors of Listening and Speaking Self-Efficacy for Adult Second Language Learners
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Grafals, Zoraida – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, this study was conducted to compare English communicative competency achievement between two different models of instruction. Adult English language learners (AELLs) participated in either the communicative task-based (CTB) or in a more traditional (MT) language instructional approach. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Control Groups
The Effects of Using Interactive Student Notebooks and Specific Written Feedback on Seventh Grade Students' Science Process Skills
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Mallozzi, Floria N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the consistent use of metacognitive strategies embedded in an Interactive Student Notebook (ISN) would impact the science process skills of 7th-grade students. In addition, this study explored whether specific teacher written feedback, provided to students in the ISN, further enhanced the use of…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Feedback (Response), Middle School Students, Grade 7
The Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of Learner Speech in Russian: A Study in the Salience of Pronunciation, Lexicon, Grammar and Syntax
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Neuendorf, Jill A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study of L-2 Russian interlanguage production examined the salience of phonetic, lexical and syntactical features for L-1 listener intelligibility, based on L-2 recitation of written scripts (Part I) and also unrehearsed speech (Part II). Part III of the study investigated strategies used by native-speaking teachers of Russian as a Second…
Descriptors: Syntax, Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Dictionaries