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K. K. Nair, Vishnu; Clark, Grace T.; Siyambalapitiya, Samantha; Reuterskiöld, Christina – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Although there is a growing body of literature on cognitive and language processing in bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), there is a major gap in the evidence for language intervention. Critically, speech-language therapists are often required to make clinical decisions for language intervention on specific…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Impairments, Intervention, Language Processing
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Carlsson, Emilia; Åsberg Johnels, Jakob; Gillberg, Christopher; Miniscalco, Carmela – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
Recent research has suggested that temporal sequencing of narrative events might be a domain-general ability that underlies oral narrative capacities. The current study investigated this issue in a group of children with known pragmatic and narrative difficulties, namely Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We hypothesized (1) that children with ASD (n…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Pragmatics, Narration, Autism
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Hijazo-Gascón, Alberto – Language Learning Journal, 2018
This article explores the second language acquisition of motion events, with particular regard to cross-linguistic influence between first and second languages. Oral narratives in Spanish as a second language by native speakers of French, German and Italian are compared, together with narratives by native Spanish speakers. Previous analysis on the…
Descriptors: French, German, Spanish, Italian
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Katzenberger, Irit; Meilijson, Sara – Language Testing, 2014
The Katzenberger Hebrew Language Assessment for Preschool Children (henceforth: the KHLA) is the first comprehensive, standardized language assessment tool developed in Hebrew specifically for older preschoolers (4;0-5;11 years). The KHLA is a norm-referenced, Hebrew specific assessment, based on well-established psycholinguistic principles, as…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Language Tests
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Rahimian, Mehdi – English Language Teaching, 2013
Analysing the effects of second language (L2) production on L2 learners' interlanguage (IL) modifications is the main scope of this paper. For this purpose, English L2 learners' output production and IL modifications in performing two different task types, one-way and two-way tasks, are compared. The one-way task used in this study was a story…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interlanguage
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Ben Maad, Mohamed Ridha – TESL Canada Journal, 2011
Exploring learners' processes of memory and analysis has captivated considerable attention among language-learning researchers due to the recent prevalence of key concepts from feeder disciplines such as cognitive psychology and phraseology. However, there has been little empirical effort to describe the nature of interaction between these two…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Memory, Language Processing, Cognitive Psychology
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Segal, Erwin M.; Miller, Gregory; Hosenfeld, Carol; Mendelsohn, Aurora; Russell, William; Julian, James; Greene, Alyssa; Delphonse, Joseph – Discourse Processes, 1997
Shows that getting involved with a story is the primary dimension of story appreciation, and that different readers interact with the same story in different ways. Indicates that the first-person grammatical device invites readers to identify with the main character, but whether or not they do is a complex function of story properties,…
Descriptors: Characterization, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing
Haberlandt, Karl; Bingham, Geoffrey – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Comprehensibility ratings and sentence-by-sentence reading times of three-sentence narratives (triples) were studied as a function of the coherence of a triple. In both experiments, reading times did not differ for first sentences, but were longer for third sentences of unrelated than for related triples. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research, Narration
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Walters, Joel; Wolf, Yuval – Language Learning, 1986
Presents some of the general goals in story grammar research and examines its major issues. Then describes a study in which the effects of text content and order on narrative recall were investigated in intermediate and advanced readers of English as a foreign language. (SED)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Language Research