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Marianthi Oikonomakou; Emmanouil Sofos; Argyro Kontogianni – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2022
Our research, focusing on critical literacy practices in education, demonstrates the outcome of a teaching scenario applied in 2021 in a primary school e-class learning environment with the aid of distant learning tools. Having taken for granted that: (a) COVID-19 pandemic has initiated important changes regarding our understanding of language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Synchronous Communication, Visual Literacy, Language Acquisition
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Pretorius, Melissa J.; le Roux, Mia; Geertsema, Salomé – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2022
This study investigated the correlation and predictive capacity of verbal working memory (VWM) to the reading comprehension of children in their first language (L1) and second language (L2). The term verbal working memory refers to a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold and manipulate verbal and auditory information temporarily.…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Verbal Communication, Reading Comprehension, Correlation
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Jared, Debra; Cormier, Pierre; Levy, Betty Ann; Wade-Woolley, Lesly – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
English language predictors of English and French reading development were investigated in a group of 140 children who were enrolled in French immersion programs. Children were first tested in kindergarten, and their reading achievement was tested yearly in both English and French from Grades 1 to 3, with word-level and passage-level measures that…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Immersion Programs, Reading Achievement, Phonological Awareness