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Hua, Youjia; Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Kaldenberg, Erica R.; Lucas, Kristin G.; Therrien, William J. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2015
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching a three-step cognitive strategy (TIP) using the schema broadening procedures on functional mathematical problem solving skills of young adults with intellectual disability (ID). We randomly assigned 14 learners with ID to the control and experimental group before the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Mental Retardation
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Burnham, Kevin R. – Applied Language Learning, 2014
In this experiment we evaluate phonetic training as a tool for language learning. Specifically, we take a group of native speakers (NS) of English (n=24) currently enrolled in Arabic classes at American universities, and evaluate the effectiveness of a high variability phonetic training program (HVPT) to improve their perception of a difficult…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Schwartz, Daniel L.; Cheng, Katherine M.; Salehi, Shima; Wieman, Carl – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
The studies in this special section of the "Journal of Educational Psychology" present a variety of social-psychological interventions across large numbers of classrooms and populations. They show notable benefits for many students at risk for low performance. This is the glass half-full interpretation, and we consider the strengths of…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Intervention, At Risk Students, Educational Benefits
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Kemper, M. J.; Verhoeven, L.; Bosman, A. M. T. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The study aimed to compare the differential effectiveness of explicit and implicit instruction of two Dutch spelling rules. Students with and without spelling disabilities were instructed a spelling rule either implicitly or explicitly in two experiments. Effects were tested in a pretest-intervention-posttest control group design. Experiment 1…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Spelling, Control Groups, Indo European Languages
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Saito, Kazuya; Wu, Xianghua – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
The current study examined how form-focused instruction (FFI) with and without corrective feedback (CF) as output enhancement facilitated second language (L2) perception of Mandarin tones at both the phonetic and phonological levels by 41 Cantonese learners of Mandarin. Two experimental groups, FFI only and FFI-CF, received a 90-min FFI treatment…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Saito, Kazuya; Lyster, Roy – Language Learning, 2012
Sixty-five Japanese learners of English participated in the current study, which investigated the acquisitional value of form-focused instruction (FFI) with and without corrective feedback (CF) on learners' pronunciation development. All students received a 4-hr FFI treatment designed to encourage them to notice and practice the target feature of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Martins, Margarida; Silva, Cristina; Pereira, Miguel – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Our aim was to analyze the impact of the characteristics of occlusive versus fricative phonemes used in writing programs on the evolution of preschool children's writing. The participants were 39 5-year-old graphoperceptive children. Their intelligence, number of letters known, and phonological skills were controlled. Their writing was evaluated…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Childrens Writing, Phonemes