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Cardoso, Walcir; Rueb, Avery; Grimshaw, Jennica – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This study examines the effects of the pedagogical use of an interactive mobile digital game, Prêt à Négocier (PàN), on improving learners' pronunciation of French as a Second Language (FSL), using three holistic measures: comprehensibility, fluency, and overall pronunciation. Two groups of FSL learners engaged in different types of game-playing…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Telecommunications
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Sadovets, Olesya – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
The necessity of forming foreign communicative competence of adult immigrants has been substantiated. The topicality of this issue for Ukraine has been defined. The experience of Global Talent Bridge, an initiative of World Education Services that is dedicated to helping skilled immigrants fully utilize their talents and education in the United…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Immigrants, Adult Education, English (Second Language)
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Westerveld, Marleen F.; Moran, Catherine A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: This research investigated the expository language skills of young school-age children with the ultimate aim of obtaining normative data for clinical practice. Specifically, this study examined (a) the level of expository language performance of 6- and 7-year-old children with typical development and (b) age-related differences between…
Descriptors: Age, Grammar, Program Effectiveness, Language Skills
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Ramirez, Manuel; Perez, Magdalenda; Valdez, Gladys; Hall, Brittany – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
The principal objective of this study was to investigate the long-term (35-36 years) effects of a K-3 bilingual-multicultural programme by studying the former Mexican-American participants and controls as adults in their 30s and 40s. The controls were enrolled in an English immersion programme and were matched to the experimental programme…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Graduation, Academic Achievement, Quality of Life
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Reynolds, David; Nicolson, Roderick I. – Dyslexia, 2007
This study reports the results of a long-term follow-up of an exercise-based approach to dyslexia-related disorders (Reynolds, Nicolson, & Hambly, "Dyslexia," 2003; 9(1): 48-71). In the initial study, children at risk of dyslexia were identified in 3 years of a junior school. One half then undertook a 6 month, home-based exercise…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonology, Self Efficacy, Dyslexia