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Buil-Legaz, Lucía; Suárez-Coalla, Paz; Santamarina-Rabanal, Liliana; Martínez-García, Cristina; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier; Cuetos, Fernando – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Recent research has stated that early oral language acquisition difficulties are related to reading and writing difficulties. Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with several dimensions of language. In this study we focus on the specific difficulties of children with DLD in spelling. We examine the impact of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Reading Difficulties
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Joe Terantino – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This research article examines the accuracy of using Google Translate as a means to offer native language, e-mail communication between teachers and parents of Latino English Language Learners (ELLs). To this end, an elementary teacher's e-mail message was translated by Google Translate and certified translators and then evaluated and compared…
Descriptors: Translation, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans, English Language Learners
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Castroviejo, Elena; Hernández-Conde, José V.; Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra; Ponciano, Marta; Vicente, Agustín – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This paper reports an experiment that investigates interpretive distinctions between two different expressions of generalization in Spanish. In particular, our aim was to find out when the distinction between generic statements (GS) such as "Tigers have stripes" and universally quantified statements (UQS) such as "All tigers have…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Age Groups, Accuracy, Semantics
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Rodríguez-Silva, Luis Humberto; Stewart, Benjamin L.; Rodríguez-Narciso, Silvia – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Analyzing the writing skill of English language learners emerges from understanding the accuracy, fluency, and complexity of texts and classifying written errors according to syntax, morphology, and lexicon. In this quantitative descriptive-analysis study, the participants included thirty one Spanish-speaking, Mexican English language learners who…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gusewski, Svenja; Rojas, Raul – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017
Purpose: This longitudinal study investigated the emergence of English tense marking in young (Spanish-English) dual language learners (DLLs) over 4 consecutive academic semesters, addressing the need for longitudinal data on typical acquisition trajectories of English in DLL preschoolers. Method: Language sample analysis was conducted on 139…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Bilingual Students, Morphemes, English
Gareth P. Morgan; M. Adelaida Restrepo; Alejandra Auza – Grantee Submission, 2013
This study compares Spanish morphosyntax error types and magnitude in monolingual Spanish and Spanish-English bilingual children with typical language development (TD) and language impairment (LI). Performance across groups was compared using cloze tasks that targeted articles, clitics, subjunctives, and derivational morphemes in 57 children.…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Spanish, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning