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Wang, Ying; McBride, Catherine – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
This study assessed the effects of three intervention programs for Chinese literacy development in kindergartners: the copying (Copy) program; a combined program of copying and Pinyin knowledge (Copy + Pinyin); and a combined program of copying and morphological awareness (Copy + MA). Ninety-seven kindergarteners aged 5-7 years in mainland China…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Chinese, Intervention, Comparative Analysis
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Appel, Randy; Wood, David – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
The correct use of frequently occurring word combinations represents an important part of language proficiency in spoken and written discourse. This study investigates the use of English-language recurrent word combinations in low-level and high-level L2 English academic essays sourced from the Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) assessment.…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
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Zuiker, Steven J. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
As a global cyberinfrastructure, the Internet makes authentic digital problem spaces like educational virtual environments (EVEs) available to a wide range of classrooms, schools and education systems operating under different circumstantial, practical, social and cultural conditions. And yet, if the makers and users of EVEs both have a hand in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Research, Research Methodology
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Mohanty, Atasi; Das, Swati Preeti – SAGE Open, 2015
The objective of the study was to examine the performance characteristics and differences between English and Oriya medium school children on various cognitive processing, reading, academic achievement, and teacher perception measures. The sample consists of 243 schoolchildren, 120 from Grade IV and 123 from Grade VII from three different schools…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Cognitive Processes, Language of Instruction, Academic Achievement
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Sheppard, Elizabeth; Ropar, Danielle; Mitchell, Peter – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2009
Mottron and colleagues found that individuals with autism were less affected by geometric impossibility than comparison participants on a copying task. The current experiment sought to determine whether a local perceptual style could account for this. Participants with and without autism copied possible and impossible geometric figures. Geometric…
Descriptors: Autism, Adolescents, Geometric Concepts, Comparative Analysis