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Direct linkKitajima, Ryu – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Corpus linguistics identifies the qualitative difference in the characteristics of spoken discourse vs. written academic discourse. Whereas spoken discourse makes greater use of finite dependent clauses functioning as constituents in other clauses, written academic discourse incorporates noun phrase constituents and complex phrases. This claim can…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Protocol Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Second Language Learning
Veenendaal, Nathalie J.; Groen, Margriet A.; Verhoeven, Ludo – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Background: Text reading prosody has been associated with reading comprehension. However, text reading prosody is a reading-dependent measure that relies heavily on decoding skills. Investigation of the contribution of speech prosody--which is independent from reading skills--in addition to text reading prosody, to reading comprehension could…
Descriptors: Role, Intonation, Reading Comprehension, Suprasegmentals
Download full textBiber, Douglas; Gray, Bethany – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
One of the major innovations of the "TOEFL iBT"® test is the incorporation of integrated tasks complementing the independent tasks to which examinees respond. In addition, examinees must produce discourse in both modes (speech and writing). The validity argument for the TOEFL iBT includes the claim that examinees vary their discourse in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
Lotfi, Ahmad Reza; Samani, Behrouz Nouri – International Education Studies, 2011
This is a study with descriptive hypothesis-testing design investigating the true nature of L2 grammatical proficiency via focusing on its component parts. It examines the performance of 60 female EFL learners between 19 and 30 years of age at 2 proficiency levels using 2 types of computerized Grammaticality Judgement tasks in different orders…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Peter A. De Villiers; Sarah B. Pomerantz – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Two studies investigated hearing-impaired students' ability to derive lexical and syntactic information about unknown words embedded in short passages of text. Implications for explaining, and trying to ameliorate, the well-documented vocabulary limitations of hearing-impaired students are discussed. (38 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Deafness, Grammar, Measures (Individuals), Reading Skills
