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Hung, Yu-ju; Chen, Shu-cheng; Samuelson, Beth Lewis – TESOL Journal, 2016
Role-play is an oral classroom activity that has been promoted to provide young learners with opportunities to practice English in meaningful contexts. To familiarize elementary students with this group task, to encourage them to pay attention to their peers' performances, and to replace traditional paper-and-pencil modes of evaluating speaking…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Oral English, Role Playing, Group Activities
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Bennett, Jessica G.; Gardner, Ralph, III; Leighner, Ross; Clancy, Shannon; Garner, Joshua – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
The Effects of the Language for Learning curriculum (Engelmann & Osborne, 1999) on through-the-air (i.e., signed and/or spoken) English skills for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) were examined by means of a single-subject, concurrent-multiple-probes-across-participants design. Four 11-year-old participants varied in auditory…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Deafness, Partial Hearing
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Raymond, William D.; Healy, Alice F.; McDonnel, Samantha; Healy, Charlotte A. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Morphological systems have been pivotal in exploring cognitive mechanisms of language use and acquisition. Adult English definite article form preference seems to depend non-deterministically on multiple factors. A corpus study of adult spontaneous speech revealed similar patterns of variability. In an experiment, article variant preferences of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
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Kieffer, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
This study contrasts growth trajectories in English reading for 2 groups of language minority (LM) learners--those who enter kindergarten with limited oral English proficiency and those who enter kindergarten proficient in oral English--with that of native English speakers. Fitting a multilevel model for change to longitudinal data on a nationally…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Risk, Kindergarten, Oral English