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Laura V. Rhinehart; Alison L. Bailey; Diane Haager – Contemporary School Psychology, 2024
Students who have remained classified as English Learners (ELs) for more than six years are often labeled "Long-term English Learners" (LTELs). The present study examined the English Language Development (ELD) test scores and demographic information in a group of 560 students identified as LTELs. Despite assumptions that these students…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Language Skills
Farah Sultana Akbar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the ever-changing digital era, the surge of online informal language learning platforms has revolutionized the way we learn new languages. This dissertation delves into the critical role of interactional feedback (IF) in synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC), a cornerstone for optimizing these digital learning spaces. Anchored in…
Descriptors: Interaction, Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication
Pumpki Lei Su; Raúl Rojas; Aquiles Iglesias – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and describe latent dual language profiles in a large sample of school-age Spanish-English bilingual children designated as English learners (ELs) by their school district. Method: Data for this study include 847 Spanish-speaking ELs from kindergarten to third grade. Spanish and English narrative…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Students, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
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Philip Thierfelder; Gladys Tang; Jia Li – Deafness & Education International, 2024
This study followed the development of Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) proficiency in 31 deaf bimodal bilingual children (kindergarten through Primary 6) over two years. The Hong Kong Sign Language Elicitation Tool (HKSL-ET) was used at three time points to elicit the production of agreement, classifier, modal, negation, and wh-question structures.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Language Proficiency, Deafness
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L. Sparks, Richard; S. Dale, Philip; M. Patton, Jon – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Although most children learn to communicate in their first language (L1), there is normal and expected variation in their rate of acquisition across all components of the language system. Until recently, most second language acquisition and second language (L2) researchers have assumed that individual differences (IDs) in L1 acquisition are small…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Correlation, Secondary School Students
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Stamp, Rose; Novogrodsky, Rama; Shaban-Rabah, Sabrin – First Language, 2021
While it is common for deaf children to be bilingual in a spoken and signed language, studies often attribute any delays in language acquisition to language deprivation, rather than as a result of cross-linguistic interaction. This study compares the production of simple sentences in three languages (Palestinian Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sentences, Semitic Languages, Sign Language
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Dollmann, Jörg; Kogan, Irena; Weißmann, Markus – Applied Linguistics, 2020
Given the controversies surrounding the critical period hypothesis on second-language (L2) learning outcomes, this study focuses on the phonological aspect of language acquisition--the strength of the foreign accent in L2. Drawing on data from a large-scale representative data set on immigrant adolescents in Germany--CILS4EU-DE--we first…
Descriptors: Dialects, Second Language Learning, Phonology, Language Acquisition
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Lindgren, Josefin; Reichardt, Valerie; Bohnacker, Ute – First Language, 2022
Closely related Swedish and German both mark information status of referents morphologically, though little is known about its acquisition. This study investigates character introductions in the narratives of 4- and 6-year-old Swedish-German bilinguals (N = 40) in both languages, elicited with MAIN "Cat/Dog." We analyse effects of age…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
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Liu, Haitao; Jin, Huiyuan – British Journal of Special Education, 2017
Deaf individuals usually face more challenges in reading and writing, because they are often deprived of adequate spoken input from their infancy. Research on the language features of deaf individuals' writing is abundant. However, their language structures have as yet been unexplored. In order to address this subject, this article uses the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Writing (Composition), Deafness, Vocabulary Skills
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Dracos, Melisa; Requena, Pablo E. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
The Spanish subjunctive mood (SUBJ) is said to be highly vulnerable in heritage language (HL) acquisition. However, there is little controlled research on HL-speaking children acquiring the various Spanish SUBJ contexts, so we do not have a clear picture of when, how, or why heritage speakers (HSs) develop in the SUBJ as they do. This study tests…
Descriptors: Spanish, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages), Monolingualism
Lin, Grace Hui Chin – Online Submission, 2020
This research was aimed at investigating the pedagogical roles of computer games (Hao et al, 2019, Chen & Hsu, 2019). It explored the impact of computer "mixed with language" (White et al, 2019) training, using simulation games, upon language acquisition and diverse daily-life knowledge. In a teacher preparation university of western…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Computer Games, Training
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De Anda, Stephanie; Ellis, Erica M.; Mejia, Nayelli C. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This article aims to describe how exemplar variability can manipulate the word learning environment to maximize within- and cross-language generalization in Spanish--English bilinguals. Furthermore, we examined sources of individual variability that predicted word learning. Method: Nineteen Spanish--English bilingual children participated…
Descriptors: Generalization, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
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Lucero, Audrey – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Oral narrative retelling is a complex linguistic and cognitive task that has been shown to map onto reading fluency and comprehension. Therefore, it is important to understand oral retelling skill, especially among "emergent bilingual" children--those who are learning two languages simultaneously. In this article, exploratory…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Bilingualism, Language Tests, Language Proficiency
Wright, Wayne E. – Educational Leadership, 2016
Although human beings communicate mainly through talking and listening, schools tend to spend little classroom instruction time helping ELLs develop their English oral language skills, writes Wayne E. Wright. In reviewing the research on ELLs' oral language development, Wright concludes that bilingual programs give ELLs the best opportunities to…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Classroom Communication
Durán, Lillian K.; Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha K.; Kohlmeier, Theresa L.; Brunner, Stephanie K.; Palma, Jose; Callard, Chase H. – Grantee Submission, 2019
The population of Spanish-speaking preschoolers in the United States continues to increase and there is a significant need to develop psychometrically sound early language and literacy screening measures to accurately capture children's ability in Spanish. In this paper, we describe the innovative design and calibration process of the new…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Psychometrics, Screening Tests
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