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Direct linkAnna Giambattista Incognito – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examines associations between writing instruction with a focus on explicit sentence syntax and reading comprehension in a sample of students receiving special education services. While the outcome data does not show direct causation between student enrollment in a treatment writing course using Systemic Functional Linguistics and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Syllables, Decoding (Reading), Syntax
Dai, Dexin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present study was focused on acquisition of Chinese relative clauses (RCs) by second language (L2) learners and whether this acquisition was influenced by RC linguistic features, learners' Chinese proficiency levels, and their first language (L1). Data were gathered via a Chinese reading comprehension test, a grammaticality judgment task, a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Alyssa Vuogan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Second language (L2) writing has been determined to be influenced by what is read, with language learners tending to borrow words and short phrases from input texts while writing (e.g., Wang & Wang, 2015). This phenomenon is referred to as lexical alignment. Only one empirical study has investigated the influence that the linguistic complexity…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
Kashiwagi, Akiko – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation investigates processing of English and Japanese relative clause (RC) sentences by native speakers and second/foreign language (L2) learners. Particularly, the relationship between the sentence processing and individual differences in working memory (WM) capacity was examined. The main question addressed in this study is whether…
Descriptors: Sentences, Second Language Learning, Short Term Memory, Japanese
Stager, Phillip A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using flashcards to develop automaticity (rapid word recognition) with key vocabulary words and phrases in order to improve fluency and reading comprehension skills for participants with and without diagnosed learning disabilities enrolled in a high school Spanish course. Eighty-seven…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Vocabulary Development, Word Recognition
Perpinan-Hinarejos, Silvia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates the acquisition of oblique relative clauses in L2 Spanish by English and Moroccan Arabic speakers in order to understand the role of previous linguistic knowledge and its interaction with Universal Grammar on the one hand, and the relationship between grammatical knowledge and its use in real-time, on the other hand.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Reaction Time, Form Classes (Languages)
