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Jin Xue; Junjing Zhuo; Juntong Cao; Heng Li; Min Chen; Xuancheng Pan – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Purposes: The effect of intervening on narrative skills in Chinese-speaking school-age children with developmental language disorder (DLD) is underexplored. Methods: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of narrative intervention on written narratives of Chinese children with and without DLD and to explore the potential…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Intervention
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Niu, Ruiying; You, Xiaoye – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
The present study investigated the effect of written languaging (WL) based on indirect written corrective feedback (WCF) on Chinese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners' written accuracy. WL refers to using the written mode to reflect upon and reason about language use. Two groups of students participated in the study over 16 weeks. Both…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Written Language, English (Second Language)
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Mancilla, Rae L.; Polat, Nihat; Akcay, Ahmet O. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
This manuscript reports on a corpus-based comparison of native and nonnative graduate students' language production in an asynchronous learning environment. Using 486 discussion board postings from a five-year period (2009-2013), we analyzed the extent to which native and nonnative university students' writing differed in 10 measures of syntactic…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Written Language
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Starling, Julia; Munro, Natalie; Togher, Leanne; Arciuli, Joanne – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: This study evaluated the efficacy of a collaborative intervention where a speech-language pathologist (SLP) trained mainstream secondary school teachers to make modifications to their oral and written instructional language. The trained teachers' uptake of techniques in their whole-class teaching practices and the impact this had on the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Usage, Oral Language
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Ayliff, D. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
This article describes the effects of an interventionist form-focused course on the written English of first-year second language university learners. For two semester courses the form (or grammar) of the language was concentrated upon. During the first semester the use of correct grammar was focussed on intensively, while during the second…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)