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Haugh, Erin Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the role orthographic coding might play in distinguishing between membership in groups of language-based disability types. The sample consisted of 36 second and third-grade subjects who were administered the PAL-II Receptive Coding and Word Choice Accuracy subtest as a measure of orthographic coding…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Grade 2, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
Duncan, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Children born to teen mothers tend to score lower on language development assessments and to have school readiness delays. To support teen mothers and their children in improving language development, educators need information about mothers' daily interactions with their children and how they contribute to their children's language development.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Mothers, Language Skills
Wu, Yi-Chieh – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of linguistic knowledge in spelling by analyzing spelling errors made by 220 students in the fourth, fifth, and seventh grades. A 25-word researcher-designed spelling test with considerations of word frequency, word familiarity, and word type (based on morphological complexity) was administered.…
Descriptors: Spelling, Profiles, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)
Todaro, Stacey Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Inferences are important because not everything in the text is explicit. Therefore, the reader must generate inferences that fill in "missing" information. Various factors can influence inference processes, including those that are related to the text and reader. Moreover, these two factors are likely to interact in highly complex ways,…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Prior Learning, Statistical Analysis, Language Skills
Irvin, Dwight W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Difficulty with social competence is a core deficit of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research on typically developing children suggests the amount of adult talk they are exposed to can positively affect their social competence. With growth in the number of children with ASD entering the inclusive preschool classroom, there is a need to…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Communication
Mayne, Hope Antoinette – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The study explored teaching and teacher education in the postcolonial context, Jamaica, based on arguments that Jamaica's education system and teacher training is constructed on its colonial past and the heavy reliance on knowledge from the West. It provided a rich description of the shared teaching experiences of teacher educators in Jamaica,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience, Teacher Educators, Teacher Educator Education