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Smolík, Filip; Matiasovitsová, Klára – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examined two markers of language impairment (LI) in a single experiment, testing sentence imitation and grammatical morphology production using an imitation task with masked morphemes. One goal was to test predictions of the morphological richness account of LI in Czech. We also tested the independent contributions of language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Slavic Languages, Sentences, Imitation
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Fields, R. Stacy; Elleman, Amy M.; Oslund, Eric L.; Clark, Laura B.; Olson, Collin – Reading Psychology, 2023
Writing is a skill that has increased in significance for both researchers and classroom teachers due to changes in recent standards. Currently, many high school English Learners (ELs) are struggling to master this priority skill. A strategy that has been shown to be effective for adolescent writers is Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD).…
Descriptors: High School Students, English Language Learners, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
Elisabeth Wilhelmina Maria Hopman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Generalization is the ability to apply regularities to novel instances, for example, correctly guessing that the plural for the novel English word 'wug' should be 'wugs'. Early language learners make overgeneralization errors like 'mouses', applying regularities beyond their attested uses. Theories concerned with the question of how learners learn…
Descriptors: Generalization, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
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Fung, Daniel; Macaro, Ernesto – Language Teaching Research, 2021
The language learner strategies research field has often tried to identify the good language learner (GLL) by distinguishing more proficient from less proficient learners. However the notion of 'good' may be problematic without taking into account an individual's linguistic knowledge (LK). This article foregrounds LK in relation to strategy use in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pham, Giang T.; Pruitt-Lord, Sonja; Snow, Catherine E. Snow; Nguyen, Yen Hoang Thi; Pham, Ben; Dao, Thuy Bich Thi; Tran, Ngoc Bich Thi; Pham, Linh Thuy; Hoang, Hien Thu; Dam, Quynh Diem – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD), defined by low language performance despite otherwise normal development, can negatively impact children's social and academic outcomes. This study is the 1st to examine DLD in Vietnamese. To lay the foundation, we identified cases of DLD in Vietnam and explored language-specific characteristics of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmental Disabilities, Language Acquisition, Vietnamese
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Mackie, Clare J.; Dockrell, Julie; Lindsay, Geoff – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
In this study, we performed a fine grained analysis of writing by children with a specific language impairment (SLI) and examined the contribution of oral language, phonological short-term memory (STM), nonverbal ability, and word reading to three writing constructs (productivity, complexity and accuracy). Forty-six children with SLI were compared…
Descriptors: Spelling, Language Impairments, Language Skills, Oral Language
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Moreno-Torres, Ignacio; Torres, Santiago; Santana, Rafael – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This is the first study to explore lexical and grammatical development in a deaf child diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Inattentive sub-type (ADHDI). The child, whose family language was Spanish, was fitted with a cochlear implant (CI) when she was 18 months old. ADHDI, for which she was prescribed medication, was diagnosed…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Morphemes, Grammar, Standardized Tests
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Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Bennetto, Loisa – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Language in autism has been the subject of intense interest, because communication deficits are central to the disorder, and because autism serves as an arena for testing theories of language acquisition. High-functioning older children with autism are often considered to have intact grammatical abilities, despite pragmatic impairments. Given the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age Differences, Autism, Language Skills