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Wendy Guo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Collocations are words that have a tendency to co-occur within a few words' spans, e.g., "drink coffee" and "dark chocolate" in English. Growing empirical evidence suggests that both native (L1) speakers and advanced second language (L2) learners process two-word collocations faster than unconnected word pairs, and that…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning
Cheryl A. Bostrom – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Research identifies the alphabetic principle as a vital step in literacy development and validates Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) measures as early predictors of reading success. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the NWF assessment process used to measure the alphabetic principle is culturally valid for early elementary Hmong…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Hmong People, Special Education, Alphabets