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Ren, Jinglei; Wang, Min; Arciuli, Joanne – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this meta-analytic review is to investigate the relation between statistical learning (SL) and language-related outcomes, and between SL and reading-related outcomes. A comprehensive search of peer-reviewed published research resulted in 42 articles with 53 independent samples and 201 reported effect sizes (Pearson's r). Results of…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Correlation, Reading Skills, Outcomes of Education
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Winters, Katherine L.; Jasso, Javier; Pustejovsky, James E.; Byrd, Courtney T. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Narrative assessment is one potentially underutilized and inconsistent method speech-language pathologists may use when considering a diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD). However, narration research encompasses many varied methodologies. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to (1) investigate how various narrative…
Descriptors: Narration, Language Impairments, Databases, Speech Language Pathology
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Lammertink, Imme; Boersma, Paul; Wijnen, Frank; Rispens, Judith – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have difficulties acquiring the grammatical rules of their native language. It has been proposed that children's detection of sequential statistical patterns correlates with grammatical proficiency and hence that a deficit in the detection of these regularities may underlie the difficulties with…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Native Language
Schenck, Andrew; Choi, Wonkyung – Online Submission, 2015
Factors, such as treatment complexity and duration, language proficiency, and educational context (EFL vs. ESL), can significantly influence language performance in experimental studies. The purpose of the present meta-analysis is to investigate the degree to which these causal factors influence linguistic improvement in studies of the English…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages)
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Li, Shaofeng – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This study reports a meta-analysis that synthesizes the empirical research on the role of language aptitude in second language grammar acquisition. A total of 33 study reports were identified including 17 predictive studies that investigated the correlations between aptitude and ultimate L2 attainment and 16 interactional studies that examined the…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jeon, Eun Hee; Yamashita, Junko – Language Learning, 2014
The present meta-analysis examined the overall average correlation (weighted for sample size and corrected for measurement error) between passage-level second language (L2) reading comprehension and 10 key reading component variables investigated in the research domain. Four high-evidence correlates (with 18 or more accumulated effect sizes: L2…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Meta Analysis