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Hau, Flora F.-W.; Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Ng, Megan W.-Y. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2021
Enhanced Conversational Recast (ECR) is an input-based grammatical intervention approach developed from research on statistical learning. Recent research reported evidence demonstrating the efficacy of ECR on the learning of grammatically obligatory morphemes in English-speaking preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD). This…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Sino Tibetan Languages, Outcomes of Treatment, Morphemes
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Orena, Adriel John; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Polka, Linda – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study examined the utility of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) recording system for investigating the language input to bilingual infants. Method: Twenty-one French-English bilingual families with a 10-month-old infant participated in this study. Using the LENA recording system, each family contributed 3 full days of…
Descriptors: French, Bilingualism, Infants, Linguistic Input
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Poulain, Tanja; Brauer, Jens – First Language, 2018
This study explores the developmental change of mother-child interactions in order to investigate which aspects of maternal behavior affect children's speech production. To this end, the interactions between 79 German-speaking mothers and their two- or five-year-old children were observed at two time points (12 months apart) and in two interactive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Role, Parent Child Relationship, Predictor Variables
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Lee, Kwang-Soon; Kim, Bong-Gyu – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
This study explores the positive learning effect of formulating English sentences via Social Network Service (SNS; "Kakao-Talk") on less proficient L2 university students' (LPSs') writing, when the application is utilized as a tool to link in and out-of class activities in a multimodal-learning environment. Its objective is also to…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Makewa, Lazarus Ndiku; Role, Elizabeth; Tuguta, Ellen – Online Submission, 2013
This paper looked at students' perceived level of English proficiency among Dodoma secondary schools in Tanzania. Factors like attitude, anxiety, classroom activities, motivation, and learning resources were considered as influencing English learning. The study was guided by three theories: Input Hypothesis, Inter-language and Vygotsky's theory of…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
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Makewa, Lazarus Ndiku; Role, Elizabeth; Tuguta, Ellen – International Journal of Instruction, 2013
This paper looked at students' perceived level of English proficiency among Dodoma secondary schools in Tanzania. Factors like attitude, anxiety, classroom activities, motivation, and learning resources were considered as influencing English learning. The study was guided by three theories: Input Hypothesis, Interlanguage and Vygotsky's theory of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Motivation, Class Activities, Learning Activities