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Camilo Andrés Rodríguez-Nieto; José David Cabarcas-Jiménez; Adriana Lucía Sarmiento-Reales; Benilda María Cantillo-Rudas; Jesús David Berrio-Valbuena; Sudirman Sudirman; Angela Castro Inostroza – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
The level of arithmetic knowledge of a high school student was explored when solving additive word problems considering the semantic structure and syntactic component. The methodology was qualitative and developed in four stages: the first is the selection of the participant, the second is the design of a questionnaire with twenty additive…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Addition
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Yang, Kyungmo; Bae, Jiyoung – English Teaching, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the continuity of reading passages of Korean high school English textbooks with the 2015 Revised National Curriculum using CohMetrix, a software that analyzes English texts in a range of linguistic features. Twentyone English textbooks were analyzed: 11 High School English, five High School English I,…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kouki, Rahim; Griffiths, Barry J. – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
In this article we present the results of a qualitative investigation into the teaching and learning of Taylor series and local approximations. In order to perform a comparative analysis, two investigations are conducted: the first is historical and epistemological, concerned with the pedagogical evolution of semantics, syntax and semiotics; the…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Paragas, Jeger P.; Francisco, Christopher D. C. – Online Submission, 2020
The study identified the performance of Grade 7 students enrolled in Umingan Central National High School across their academic performance in English under creative writing skill. In gathering the profile of the students and their performance in identifying morphological and syntactical errors, descriptive and correlational research designs with…
Descriptors: Social Media, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, High School Students
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Chumbay, Julio; Ochoa, Janina Felisha Quito – English Language Teaching, 2020
This research study analyzes the effect the implementation of language-driven CLIL has on senior learners from Manuel J. Calle High School in Cuenca, Ecuador in relation to the development of written production in terms of Syntax, Content, Communicative Achievement, Organization, and Language compared to a non-language-driven CLIL classroom. There…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Course Content, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
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Ozaki, Sachiko; Ueda, Isao – JALT CALL Journal, 2020
This experimental study examined how VSTF (Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting)-based text benefits reading speed, reading comprehension, reading efficiency and retention for middle and high school students. Prospective within-subjects tests were conducted in Japan on a total of 132 students: 76 high school students from 12th grade and 56 middle…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Keh, Melissa Latham – CATESOL Journal, 2019
Assessing English learners (ELs) in US schools is challenging because many widely used assessments have not been designed with ELs in mind. Yet if teachers are sensitive to how ELs may perform differently from native speakers on such assessments, these assessments reveal useful information about ELs' language and literacy skills. This mixed-method…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Testing
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Coates, Robert Alexander Graham; Gorham, Judith; Nicholas, Richard – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
Recent neurological breakthroughs in our understanding of the Critical Period Hypothesis and prosody may suggest strategies on how phonics instruction could improve L2 language learning and in particular phoneme/grapheme decoding. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled-trial on the application of prosody and phonics techniques, to improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Kaplan, Dafna; Berman, Ruth – First Language, 2015
The study examined linguistic flexibility of Hebrew-speaking students from middle childhood to adolescence compared with adults on tasks requiring them to alternate between different versions of varied linguistic stimuli. Lexical flexibility was tested by constructing different words with a shared root and a shared prosodic template;…
Descriptors: Intonation, Syntax, Suprasegmentals, Sentence Structure
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Berninger, Virginia; Abbott, Robert; Cook, Clayton R.; Nagy, William – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Relationships between attention/executive functions and language learning were investigated in students in Grades 4 to 9 (N = 88) with and without specific learning disabilities (SLDs) in multiword syntax in oral and written language (OWL LD), word reading and spelling (dyslexia), and subword letter writing (dysgraphia). Prior…
Descriptors: Correlation, Attention Control, Executive Function, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Chung, Kevin K. H.; Lo, Jason C. M.; Ho, Connie S.-H.; Xiao, Xiaoyun; Chan, David W. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2014
This study aims to investigate the relation of syntactic and discourse skills to morphological skills, rapid naming, and working memory in Chinese adolescent readers with dyslexia and to examine their cognitive-linguistic profiles. Fifty-two dyslexic readers (mean age, 13;42) from grade 7 to 9 in Hong Kong high schools were compared with 52…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Naming, Short Term Memory, Syntax
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Berninger, Virginia W.; Richards, Todd L.; Abbott, Robert D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
In Study 1, children in grades 4-9 (N = 88, 29 females and 59 males) with persisting reading and/or writing disabilities, despite considerable prior specialized instruction in and out of school, were given an evidence-based comprehensive assessment battery at the university while parents completed questionnaires regarding past and current history…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Ibarrola, Amparo Lazaro – International Journal of English Studies, 2012
A general advantage in proficiency has been repeatedly reported for learners receiving Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) when compared to learners who only receive English lessons. However, fine-grained studies addressing the aspects which make up this general advantage are still scarce. Within this context, this paper concentrates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Languages
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Jafary, Mohamad Reza; Nordin, Noreen; Mohajeri, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study investigated the effect of dynamic assessment on learners' syntactic knowledge. The main concern of this study was significant difference between dynamic and static assessment and the possible role of these two forms of assessment on the syntactic development of Iranian EFL college preparatory learners. To fulfill the purpose of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khodadady, Ebrahim; Pishghadam, Reza; Alaee, Farnaz Farokh – English Language Teaching, 2012
An achievement test based on schema theory (S-Test) was developed on the passages comprising the English textbook taught at grade three in state high schools in Iran and administered concurrently with a validated and reliable Social Capital Scale (SCS) to four hundred seventy seven male and female participants. The Z-scores obtained on the S-Test…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Capital, Parenting Styles, Semantics