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Clark, Grace T.; Reuterskiöld, Christina – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: A systematic review was performed to determine the extent to which orthographic facilitation, a strategy to improve word learning, has been demonstrated in the literature for children and adolescents from clinical categories such as developmental language disorders (DLD), autism spectrum disorders (ASD), Down syndrome, dyslexia, hearing…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Children, Adolescents
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McCrimmon, Adam W.; Climie, Emma A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2011
This article presents a review of the "Test of Written Language-Fourth Edition" (TOWL-4), a newly updated individual or group-based measure of written language for students aged 9 years, 0 months through 17 years, 11 months. The stated purposes of the measure are to identify students in need of support or intervention in the area of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Written Language, School Psychologists, Test Reviews
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Tarone, Elaine – Language Teaching, 2010
Many adolescent and adult L2 learners in language classrooms, both in the US and other countries, have little or no alphabetic print literacy. Language teachers may turn to SLA research for assistance, yet almost all research on oral SLA has focused on educated, highly-literate learners (Bigelow & Tarone 2004; Tarone, Bigelow & Hansen 2009). The…
Descriptors: Afro Asiatic Languages, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Experimental Psychology
Grigorenko, Elena L., Ed.; Mambrino, Elisa, Ed.; Preiss, David D., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Written Language, Literacy, Child Development
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Bennett, Susan – Second Language Research, 1994
In a study of first-language transfer and second-language (L2) acquisition of reflexive binding, the interpretation of English reflexives by native speakers of Serbo-Croatian was investigated using two types of written sentence comprehension tasks. Results support the transfer hypothesis and suggest learners have access to Universal Grammar in L2…
Descriptors: Adolescents, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Py, Bernard, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (TRANEL), 1996
Research papers on the relationship between oral and written language include: "Une distinction bien fragile: oral/ecrit" ("A Fragile Distinction: Oral/Written") (Francoise Gadet); "Oral et ecrit dans les representations des enseignants et dans les pratiques quotidiennes de la classe de francais" ("Oral and Written Language in Teachers'…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, French