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Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Schulze, Cornelia; Anagnostopoulou, Nefeli; Zajaczkowska, Maria; Matthews, Danielle – First Language, 2022
If a child asks a friend to play football and the friend replies, 'I have a cough', the requesting child must make a 'relevance inference' to determine the communicative intent. Relevance inferencing is a key component of pragmatics, that is, the ability to integrate social context into language interpretation and use. We tested which cognitive…
Descriptors: Young Children, Articulation (Speech), English, Thinking Skills
Suryani, Ita; Suarnajaya, I. Wayan; Pratiwi, Ni Putu Astiti – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
This study had purposes of exploring the factors inhibiting the students in speaking English and knowing teacher's perception toward the factors inhibiting the students in speaking English as a foreign language. It was done to overcome students' problems in learning the target language and solve students' problems in learning to speak. Descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Grapin, Scott E.; Llosa, Lorena – Educational Assessment, 2022
Traditionally, content assessments have been carried out through written language. However, the latest standards in U.S. K-12 education expect all students, including English learners (ELs), to demonstrate their content learning using multiple modalities. This study examined the performance of fifth-grade students at varying levels of English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, English Language Learners, Science Instruction, Grade 5
Gillam, Sandra L.; Olszewski, Abbie; Squires, Katie; Wolfe, Katie; Slocum, Timothy; Gillam, Ronald B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: As noted in this forum, more research is needed to support the work of school-based speech-language pathologists who are designing and implementing interventions for students with language disorders. This article presents the findings of a multiple-baseline, single-subject study that was conducted to assess the outcomes of an intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Language Proficiency, Language Impairments
Stark, Hannah L.; Eadie, Patricia A.; Snow, Pamela C.; Goldfeld, Sharon R. – Professional Development in Education, 2020
Teachers in the early years of primary school play an important role in supporting students' oral language skills; however, there is evidence to suggest many Australian teachers are not adequately prepared to provide systematic, evidence-based instruction in oral language and early literacy. The aim of this study was to describe the observed and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Román, Diego; del Rosal, Karla; Basaraba, Deni – Research in Science Education, 2019
Informal formative assessments (IFAs) are classroom interactions teachers use to gather information about their students' learning, interpret it, and act on this information to achieve academic goals. One of the responses science teachers can enact as the result of IFA is constructing explanations to clarify science concepts to their students.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Formative Evaluation, Learning Processes
Bergsleithner, Joara M., Ed.; Frota, Sylvia Nagem, Ed.; Yoshioka, Jim K., Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2013
This volume celebrates the life and groundbreaking work of Richard Schmidt, the developer of the influential Noticing Hypothesis in the field of second language acquisition. The 19 chapters encompass a compelling collection of cutting-edge research studies exploring such constructs as noticing, attention, and awareness from multiple perspectives,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Attention, Language Processing
Uchida, Ayumi – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study is to examine the perception and production of Japanese geminate and single consonants by learners of Japanese in various proficiency levels. Research on Japanese geminate and single stop consonants show that geminates and single stop consonants are significantly difficult for nonnative Japanese speakers to produce and…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Japanese, Second Language Learning, Sentences
Roehr, Karen – AILA Review, 2010
SLA researchers agree that explicit knowledge and learning play an important role in adult L2 development. In the field of cognitive linguistics, it has been proposed that implicit and explicit knowledge differ in terms of their internal category structure and the processing mechanisms that operate on their representation in the human mind. It has…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Grammar, Oral Language, Second Language Learning
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2007
These Proceedings document an educational research forum held at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) on December 12, 2007. Table of contents and 23 research studies of high school teaching are included. Each paper contains a literature review, methodology, results, conclusions, and references. Studies include: (1) Cultural…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Cultural Awareness, Spanish, Second Language Learning