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Oihana Leonet; Eider Saragueta; Eli. Arocena – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
The objective of the study is to explore the possibilities of pedagogical translanguaging as a strategy to develop critical language awareness among a group of primary school students from the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain). The study is part of a broader ethnographically based research project, which was developed over two school years in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
Giovanna Arenare; Encarnación Carrasco Perea; Carmen López Ferrero – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article focuses on the effects of a 21-hour Romance Intercomprehension (RIC) module on the plurilingual competence in Romance languages of no prior knowledge and EFL reading comprehension skills of a group of Italian schoolchildren aged 10-11. Data were collected pre- and post-training through a simple language identification and…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nikolic, Mirjana; Cvijetic, Maja – Research in Pedagogy, 2023
Although numerous studies show that intelligence, measured by various tests, is a significant predictor of school achievement, this cognitive variable can only explain about 50% of the variance. It is also known that communicative language ability represents an important basis for learning subject content in the early period of formal education.…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Tribushinina, Elena; Niemann, Geke; Meuwissen, Joyce – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
This article is one of the first attempts to study the mechanisms of foreign language learning by children with DLD. We test the effectiveness of a cognate intervention aiming to enhance cross-linguistic awareness of Dutch-speaking primary-school pupils with DLD, as part of their English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum. The participants…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities
Rizka Razimona; Sary Silvhiany; Machdalena Vianty – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2024
Teaching English to first-grade elementary school children presents its own challenges for teachers. This is because children at this age have characteristics such as having a short attention span, enjoying playing, and learning more effectively when they are having fun. On the other hand, children in this group are still learning to read and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Singing
Peterson, Amy K.; Ukrainetz, Teresa A.; Risueño, R. J. – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2021
Purpose: This descriptive multiple case study examined the effects of a contextualized expository strategy intervention on supported and independent note-taking, verbal rehearsal, and reporting skills for three elementary students with language disorders. Method: Two 9-year-old fourth grade students and one 11-year-old sixth grade student with…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Impairments, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Ji Qi; Barry Lee Reynolds; Xiaoke Bai – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This extension study investigates the relationship between self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies and first language (L1) Chinese and second language (L2) English reading test performance among 190 primary six students in mainland China, building upon the findings by Tse et al. (2022). Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the acceptable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Independent Study, Reading Comprehension
Wang, Jing; Bai, Barry – Research Papers in Education, 2023
This study examined the relations between achievement goals, self-regulated learning (SRL), and English learning achievement as well as the contributions of perceived teachers' and parents' goal emphases to students' achievement goal adoption. Participants were 520 4th graders in Hong Kong, who learn English as a second or foreign language…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Self Management
Ting-Chia Hsu; Ching Chang; Tien-Hsiu Jen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Young learners' vocabulary learning needs interaction with language input when they are engaged in an activity. Given that AI-supported image recognition technologies offer hands-on learning in authentic contexts, and that self-regulated learning (SRL) enables learners to monitor and evaluate their learning when interacting with multi-sensory…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Multisensory Learning, Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies
Mark Lauterbach; Marcy Zipke – Reading Teacher, 2024
Metalinguistic Awareness is the ability to consciously reflect on and manipulate language, from the level of the phoneme, to words, to whole phrases. Research has shown that engaging in metalinguistic activities can have a positive impact on reading. This article details some of the component skills of metalinguistic awareness (in this case,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Metalinguistics, Language Skills
Chambrè, Susan J. – Reading Horizons, 2023
Vocabulary development remains an active and robust research area, yet little is known about what students, particularly young students, think during vocabulary learning. A commonly held assumption is that young learners employ few, if any, cognitive and metacognitive strategies when engaged in literacy tasks. Conversely, decades of research…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Language Acquisition, Learning Strategies, Metacognition
Paul Sun, Peijian; Yang, Qing; Hou, Xiaoming – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examined young learners' motivation and strategy use for Chinese-as-a-foreign-language (L2 Chinese) learning in New Zealand. A total of 1157 primary school students from 29 primary schools were recruited for the study. The results revealed that primary school young learners' overall motivation and strategy use for L2 Chinese learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bai, Barry; Wang, Jing – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study examined the role of growth mindset, self-efficacy, and intrinsic value in self-regulated learning (SRL) and English language learning achievements in Hong Kong primary school students. A sample of 690 4th graders participated in the study. The findings suggest that the level of SRL strategy use (i.e. monitoring, effort regulation, and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bucknam, Jessica; Hood, Sally J. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This research describes language use by four first-grade students during mathematics and Language Arts instruction in a one-way 50/50 Mandarin immersion classroom. The urban public school was situated in the heart of an African-American community in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Participants were video- and audio-recorded…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Grammar, Vocabulary Development
Sato, Masatoshi; Dussuel Lam, Claudia – Language Teaching Research, 2021
This classroom-based, quasi-experimental study explored the impact of metacognitive instruction designed to promote young learners' (1) willingness to communicate (WTC), (2) participation in communicative activities, and (3) metacognitive knowledge of oral communication. Forty-four Grade 3 students (8--9 years old) from two intact classes…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language