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Xinyi Zhang; Carrie Lau – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The present study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire assessing parents' beliefs about, and attitudes toward, supporting young children's English as a second/foreign language development -- Parent English Language Belief and Attitude Questionnaire (PELBA-Q). The PELBA-Q was piloted with 173 parents of kindergarten-aged children and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Wong, Shiat Lu; Siew, Nyet Moi; Soon, Chiow Thai – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
There are limited reports about development of questionnaire to measure learning satisfaction among young children. In this research, guidelines were listed for developing a questionnaire that gauges Chinese Character Literacy Learning Satisfaction (CCLLS) among 8-year-old children. The research was undertaken based on the responses of 232…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Chinese, Literacy
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Li, Danfeng; Shi, Jiannong – High Ability Studies, 2021
This study examined the effects of fluid intelligence and trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) on academic performance in primary school-aged intellectually gifted and average children (8-11 years of age). One hundred and four average children and eighty gifted children were administered a Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices and a Trait…
Descriptors: Gifted, Prediction, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Barwasser, Anne; Urton, Karolina; Knaak, Turid; Grünke, Matthias – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2022
The number of foreign languages spoken in Germany is rising, and as a result German is increasingly being learned as a second language (L2). This is a challenge for many secondary-school students, especially those who have learning disabilities (LD) and behavioral difficulties, which are often accompanied by reduced motivation to learn, in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, High School Students, Second Language Learning
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Brännström, Karl Jonas; Karjalainen, Suvi; Sahlén, Birgitta; Andersson, Ketty; Lyberg-Åhlander, Viveka; Christensson, Jonas – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2022
The present study reports on the development of a questionnaire that evaluates children's experiences of their physical classroom environment, activities and interactions. It also explores the psychometric properties of the questionnaire and how acoustical characteristics of the classroom, class size and student characteristics (age, sex and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Classroom Environment, Learning Activities
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Griskell, Holly L.; Gámez, Perla B.; Lesaux, Nonie K. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study investigated the relations between bilingual students' amount of talk during classroom discussion, motivation, and self-reported bi-literacy skills (i.e. reading, writing skills in their native and school languages). Sixth-grade Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States (N = 121; M age = 12.119 years old; SD = 0.358) reported on…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication, Student Participation
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Lai, Jung-Yu; Chang, Li-Ting – SAGE Open, 2021
The education community has gradually recognized the value of augmented reality (AR) technology and its positive impacts on student learning performance. Still, few studies have proposed specific solutions and results to confirm this phenomenon for first graders in English vocabulary learning. Hence, this research explores the effects of AR apps…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Computer Software, Computer Simulation
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Ribeiro, Luísa A.; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Naerde, Ane; Wang, Mari Vaage; Brandlistuen, Ragnhild Eek; Passaretta, Giampiero – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
Socioeconomic disparities in early language are widespread and have long-lasting effects. The aim of this study is to investigate when social gaps in language problems arise and how they change across the first years of schooling. We address this question in two large longitudinal Norwegian datasets: the Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Language Acquisition, Social Differences, Foreign Countries
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Tary, Blanka – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
The aim of the present study is to identify teachers' reading strategy use in L1 (mother tongue) and L2 (foreign language), and also to examine whether background variables such as gender, qualification, teaching experience, platform of teaching, reading habits, majors, L2 level and the number of L2s known make a difference in teachers' reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Habits
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Lim, Ching-Tse Donna; Fraser, Barry J. – Learning Environments Research, 2018
Although learning environments research has thrived for decades in many countries and school subjects, English classroom environment research is still in its infancy. This article paves the way for expanding research on English classroom environments by (1) reviewing the limited past research in English classrooms and (2) reporting the first study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Mahmoud, Salameh S. – English Language Teaching, 2018
Parents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia usually help their kids in early school years especially in English language. This help varies according to the parents' level of education, the degree of difficulty of the curriculum and the type of school their kids join. Sometimes they give the right kind of help that matches the teachers' strategies and…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Questionnaires, Homework
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Gürsoy, Esim; Eken, Elif – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
Recent changes in Turkish educational system have increased the importance of teaching English, following a global trend to introduce foreign languages at earlier stages of the language teaching program. However, putting the new language program successfully into practice can be challenging. In this regard, this study attempts to investigate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Lam, Yuen Yi; Chan, Joanne Chung Yan – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2017
This study compared the effects of social persuasion from parents and teachers on students' self-efficacy in reading comprehension in English as a foreign language. Ninety-nine Grade 8 Chinese students in a secondary school in Hong Kong completed a questionnaire with six scenarios which tapped their self-efficacy after receiving positive and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chien, Chin-Wen – Education 3-13, 2018
Elementary school English teachers in Taiwan are required to have a formal professional dialogue regularly and engage in purposeful discussions about the curriculum and classroom practice (Ministry of Education. [1998]. "Small-Size Class Plan." http://163.19.62.3/smlass/E983A8E8A888E58A%83.htm). This study used a questionnaire to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gross, Barbara; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
Cook argued that the learning of a new language leads to a state of multi-competence, with the learner's mind changing in ways that go beyond the linguistic realm. The present study follows Dewaele's suggestion that multilingualism is linked to both cognitive and psychological changes. It explores one particular under-researched relationship,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Correlation, Bilingualism, Multidimensional Scaling
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