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Hu, Shenai; Vender, Maria; Fiorin, Gaetano; Delfitto, Denis – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
Recent experimental results suggest that negation is particularly challenging for children with reading difficulties. This study looks at how young poor readers, speakers of Mandarin Chinese, comprehend affirmative and negative sentences as compared with a group of age-matched typical readers. Forty-four Chinese children were tested with a truth…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Sentences, Mandarin Chinese, Reading Comprehension
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Kapantzoglou, Maria; Fergadiotis, Gerasimos; Restrepo, M. Adelaida – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This study examined whether the language sample elicitation technique (i.e., storytelling and story-retelling tasks with pictorial support) affects lexical diversity (D), grammaticality (grammatical errors per communication unit [GE/CU]), sentence length (mean length of utterance in words [MLUw]), and sentence complexity (subordination…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Language Impairments, Grammar
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Abrams, Zsuzsanna; Rott, Susanne – Language Teaching Research, 2017
Research on second language (L2) grammar in task-based language learning has yielded inconsistent results regarding the effects of task-complexity, prompting calls for more nuanced analyses of L2 development and task performance. The present cross-sectional study contributes to this discussion by comparing the performance of 245 learners of German…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Murakami, Akira – Language Learning, 2016
This article introduces two sophisticated statistical modeling techniques that allow researchers to analyze systematicity, individual variation, and nonlinearity in second language (L2) development. Generalized linear mixed-effects models can be used to quantify individual variation and examine systematic effects simultaneously, and generalized…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Schindler, Julia; Richter, Tobias; Isberner, Maj-Britt; Naumann, Johannes; Neeb, Yvonne – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
Reading comprehension is based on the efficient accomplishment of several cognitive processes at the word, sentence, and text level. To the extent that each of these processes contributes to reading comprehension, it can cause reading difficulties if it is deficient. To identify individual sources of reading difficulties, tools are required that…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Language Tests, Grammar, Task Analysis
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Martoccio, Alyssa – Language Teaching Research, 2018
This study examined the effectiveness of explicit instruction and feedback, focusing on degrees of prior knowledge of the personal "a" in intermediate level second language (L2) Spanish. On the pretest, participants (n = 58) completed grammaticality judgment and picture description tasks, which found that learners had different degrees…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Teaching Methods
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Werfel, Krystal L.; Hendricks, Alison Eisel; Schuele, C. Melanie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was twofold. The first aim was to explore differences in profiles of past tense marking in oral reading of school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI). The second aim was to explore the potential of past tense marking in oral reading as a clinical marker of SLI in school-age children. Method: This…
Descriptors: Grammar, Oral Reading, Morphemes, Accuracy
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LaHuerta, Ana Cristina – International Journal of English Studies, 2018
The aim of the present study is to compare the writing products of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students using accuracy and grammatical complexity as measures. It also aims at examining the development of the morphological, syntactic, lexical, spelling, and punctuation errors committed by these learners when writing in English.…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Grammar, Difficulty Level, Writing (Composition)
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Alavinia, Parviz; Shafaei, Ali; Salimi, Asghar – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The current research study was conducted to examine the impacts of focused and unfocused audio-appended reading tasks on female EFL learners' acquisition of a rule-bound structure (passive voice) and a non-rule-bound structure (prepositions). The participants of this study involved ninety intermediate female English learners. They were assigned…
Descriptors: Females, Accuracy, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Sanjaya, I. Nyoman Suka; Sitawati, Anak Agung Raka – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2017
The present study was aimed at examining whether grammatical accuracy and gender were significant predictors of the use of request strategy (direct or indirect). Participants were 39 seventh semester students (29 males and 10 females) majoring in an International Business Management program at a public higher education institution in Bali. Their…
Descriptors: Grammar, Accuracy, Gender Differences, Interlanguage
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Suzuki, Yuichi; DeKeyser, Robert – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The present study aimed to examine whether distributed practice works better than massed practice for proceduralization of grammatical knowledge. Learners of Japanese as a second language were trained on an element of Japanese morphology under either massed or distributed practice conditions. Results showed that massed practice led to accurate…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphology (Languages), Japanese
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Wang, Xin – World Journal of Education, 2017
Scholars debate whether corrective feedback contributes to improving L2 learners' grammatical accuracy in writing performance. Some researchers take a stance on the ineffectiveness of corrective feedback based on the impracticality of providing detailed corrective feedback for all L2 learners and detached grammar instruction in language…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Liu, Ran; Koedinger, Kenneth R. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
A growing body of research suggests that accounting for student specific variability in educational data can improve modeling accuracy and may have implications for individualizing instruction. The Additive Factors Model (AFM), a logistic regression model used to fit educational data and discover/refine skill models of learning, contains a…
Descriptors: Models, Regression (Statistics), Learning, Classification
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Albirini, Abdulkafi – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2018
This study examined two common accounts of heritage speakers' nonnative attainment in their heritage/first language (L1), one attributing it to the influence of the second language (L2) and another to insufficient L1 input. Three groups of children who were heritage speakers of Arabic and who varied in their age of L2 exposure and type and amount…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction, Language Acquisition
Wagner, Jason – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study is to provide a theoretical explanation for the effectiveness of Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) in increasing second-language (L2) students' grammatical accuracy. WCF is examined via Skill Acquisition Theory (SAT) in order to account for uneven patterns of its effectiveness. As the study demonstrates, WCF is effective…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Accuracy
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