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Assessing Learners' Productive Vocabulary Knowledge: Formats and Considerations
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Sharakhimov, Shoaziz; Nurmukhamedov, Ulugbek – English Teaching Forum, 2021
Vocabulary learning is an incremental process. Vocabulary knowledge, especially for second-language learners, may develop across a lifetime. Teachers with experience in providing feedback on their students' vocabulary use in writing or speech might have noticed that it is sometimes difficult to pinpoint one aspect of word knowledge. The reason is…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities Who Are Also English Learners
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Karvonen, Meagan; Clark, Amy K. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2019
There is a dearth of research describing the small population of students who have significant cognitive disabilities and are also English learners (ELs). This study expands what is known about this population by describing EL students who participated in Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessments in 16 states during the 2016-2017 year. Data…
Descriptors: Severe Intellectual Disability, English Language Learners, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods
Effects of Web-Based Support on Early Head Start Home Visitors' Use of Evidence-Based Intervention Decision Making and Growth in Children's Expressive Communication
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Buzhardt, Jay; Greenwood, Charles R.; Walker, Dale; Anderson, Rawni; Howard, Waylon; Carta, Judith J. – NHSA Dialog, 2011
We investigated Early Head Start home visitors' use of evidence-based practices and the efficacy of a web-based system to support these practices. Home visitors learned to use 3 evidence-based practices: (a) frequent assessment of children's early communication for screening and progress monitoring, (b) 2 home-based language-promoting…
Descriptors: Evidence, Early Intervention, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Visits
Producing Complex Sentences.
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Scott, Cheryl M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988
The article examines the child's ability to produce complex sentences with sections on a structural framework for complex language (clausal and nonclausal complexity), a developmental perspective (coordination of clauses, subordination of nominal, adverbial, and relative clauses), and applied considerations (evaluating and teaching complex…
Descriptors: Child Development, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
The Effects of Writing Task on Mastery Classification of High School Students.
Prater, Doris – 1982
A study was conducted to compare the writing performance of tenth grade students across three modes of discourse. Subjects were 80 students who had been classified as "masters" or "nonmasters" of writing based on their scores on the writing section of the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills. The students were assigned three…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Descriptive Writing, Evaluation Methods, Expository Writing
The Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist in Whole Language.
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Westby, Carol E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1990
The article presents a framework for understanding the pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, text, and phonological aspects of language that underlie both oral and written communication. It gives suggestions for ways speech-language pathologists can assess children's language skills that are essential for success in a whole language program. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps