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Ruth French – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explain key aspects of teaching and learning relevant to sustaining literacy development beyond the early years of schooling, including effective teaching of more complex texts. The paper takes as its point of departure Touchstone 9 of the Foundation Touchstones promoted by the Foundation of Learning and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Sustainability, Psychological Patterns, Difficulty Level
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Rikke L. Bundgaard-Nielsen; Brett J. Baker; Elise A. Bell; Yizhou Wang – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Many Aboriginal Australian communities are undergoing language shift from traditional Indigenous languages to contact varieties such as Kriol, an English-lexified Creole. Kriol is reportedly characterised by lexical items with highly variable phonological specifications, and variable implementation of voicing and manner contrasts in obstruents…
Descriptors: Creoles, Child Language, Phonemes, Language Acquisition
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Miaomiao Liu; Yixun Li; Yongqiang Su; Hong Li – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: This study sought to 1) identify linguistic features important for Chinese text complexity with a theory-based and systematic approach, and 2) address how feature sets and algorithms affect the performance of Chinese text complexity models. Method: Texts from Chinese language arts textbooks from Grades 1 to 6 (N = 1,478) in Mainland China…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Textbooks, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence
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Bruyèl-Olmedo, Antonio; Juan-Garau, Maria – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Since its early studies, linguistic landscape has been approached from an increasing number of perspectives, which include the relative weight of languages in the signage of international holiday resorts. However, the coexistence of varieties of a given language in a single destination remains to be addressed. The research adopts a corpus-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tourism, Language Variation, English
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Quam, Carolyn; Swingley, Daniel – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Children are adept at learning their language's speech-sound categories, but just how these categories function in their developing lexicon has not been mapped out in detail. Here, we addressed whether, in a language-guided looking procedure, 2-year-olds would respond to a mispronunciation of the voicing of the initial consonant of a newly learned…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Pronunciation, Vocabulary Development, Intonation
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Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar; Abdalla, Fauzia; Al-Sulaihim, Nailah – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: This study examines the development of narrative microstructure elements of productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in the oral story production of preschool- and school-age Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children. It also explores the effects of story task complexity on the target microstructural features. Method: This study…
Descriptors: Arabic, Task Analysis, Difficulty Level, Monolingualism
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De Ruiter, Laura E.; Lemen, Heather C. P.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Brandt, Silke; Theakston, Anna L. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
We analysed both structural and functional aspects of sentences containing the four adverbials "after", "before", "because", and "if" in two dense corpora of parent-child interactions from two British English-acquiring children (2;00-4;07). In comparing mothers' and children's usage we separate out the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Parent Child Relationship, English, Comparative Analysis
Brandon Kramer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The importance of input on language learning cannot be overstated. One method of providing input to learners at a level that is appropriate for them is called extensive reading, in which learners read an abundance of texts. In practice, for learners of English as a second or foreign language, these texts are often books that have been written and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input, Reading Materials
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Kitikanan, Patchanok – English Language Teaching, 2022
This article reports on the second language (L2) perception of contrasts among British English monophthongs. This study has two aims: 1) to explore the discriminability of contrasts in L2 British English monophthongs; and 2) to test the perceptual assimilation model-L2 (PAM-L2) towards the ability to discriminate British English contrasts. The…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Vowels, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Paola Uccelli – Written Communication, 2023
Analytical writing poses particularly challenging, yet often overlooked, language demands that need attention in educational research and practice. In this article, I discuss the Core Analytical Language Skills (CALS) construct and its relevance for school reading and writing. CALS refer to the set of learners' school-relevant language resources…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Reading Materials
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AlAqad, Mohammed H.; Al-Saggaf, Mohammad Ali – Pedagogical Research, 2021
This study aims to examine the challenges in translating Malay cultural terms into English, and to determine practical procedures to overcome these challenges. The translation challenges in translating Malay cultural terms into English raised due to some factors; sound, lexis, grammar, and style. Both English and Malay originate from different…
Descriptors: Translation, Indonesian Languages, English (Second Language), Second Languages
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Hochberg, Judy – NECTFL Review, 2019
This paper argues for bringing insights from linguistics into the world language classroom. At any level of study, such insights can add intellectual interest to the study of a target language (TL), and can also help students accept and acquire aspects of the TL that are different from their first language or that are inherently challenging. As a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Chinese, French, German
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Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Petscher, Yaacov; Treiman, Rebecca; Kelcey, Benjamin – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
To expand our understanding of script-general and script-specific principles in the learning of letter names, we examined how three characteristics of alphabet letters -- their frequency in printed materials, order in the alphabet, and visual similarity to other letters -- relate to children's letter-name knowledge in four languages with three…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Written Language, Printed Materials
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Obasi, Jane Chinelo – Journal of English as an International Language, 2018
It is pertinent to observe that the vagaries of the English language grammar constitute a major problem in the teaching and learning of English in a second language situation like Nigeria. The inherent structural irregularities within the English language have made it difficult for users and learners of English to grapple with the unconventional…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
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Wong, Simpson W. L.; Dealey, Jessica; Leung, Vina W. H.; Mok, Peggy P. K. – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Despite English being a core and compulsory part of the curriculum for Chinese English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners, it is nevertheless often highly challenging for them. This is partly due to the discrepancies between English's citation and spoken form and the lack of recognition this pronunciation receives within ESL classrooms. With this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phonemes
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