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Metsala, Jamie L.; Sparks, Erin; David, Margaret; Conrad, Nicole; Deacon, S. Hélène – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Educators and researchers agree that oral language is fundamental to students' reading acquisition. It is not clear how best to conceptualise oral language within models of reading -- as one's overall understanding of spoken language, or as individual skills, each with unique contributions to children's reading comprehension. In our longitudinal…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Language Skills
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Asadi, Ibrahim A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
Listening comprehension (LC) is considered an important but complex skill that predicts later reading comprehension in various languages. In this study, we aimed at understanding the relationship of LC with different linguistic and cognitive components. For this purpose, 262 Arabic-speaking kindergartners participated in this study. Our regression…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Cognitive Tests, Semitic Languages, Native Language
Spencer, Mercedes; Wagner, Richard K. – Review of Educational Research, 2018
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the comprehension problems of children who have a specific reading comprehension deficit (SCD), which is characterized by poor reading comprehension despite adequate decoding. The meta-analysis included 86 studies of children with SCD who were assessed in reading comprehension and oral language…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Language Skills, Developmental Delays
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Chow, Jason C.; Frey, Jennifer R.; Naples, Lauren H. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2021
We investigated the associations between teacher-rated and direct assessments of early elementary students' speech and language skills to explore whether using teachers as primary screeners yielded assessment data that reliably identified young students with language difficulties who many need a more comprehensive evaluation. We assessed first-…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Speech Communication
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Eghbaria-Ghanamah, Hazar; Ghanamah, Rafat; Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin; Adi-Japha, Esther; Karni, Avi – Developmental Psychology, 2020
A large linguistic distance exists between spoken Arabic and the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) the literary language (a diglosia). Novice readers, therefore, struggle with the complex orthography of Arabic as well as the mastering of MSA. Here, we tested whether structured activities in MSA would advance kindergarteners' MSA aptitude by the end of…
Descriptors: Nursery Rhymes, Kindergarten, Semitic Languages, Intervention
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Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
Children entering kindergarten and grade 1 vary greatly in their emergent literacy skills. Because preschool teachers can help set the foundation of literacy skills related to school readiness, one way to address those gaps is to build teachers' capacity to apply evidence-based strategies in their language and literacy instruction.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Teachers, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods
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Kim, Young-Suk – Child Development, 2015
Using data from children in South Korea (N = 145, M[subscript age] = 6.08), it was determined how low-level language and cognitive skills (vocabulary, syntactic knowledge, and working memory) and high-level cognitive skills (comprehension monitoring and theory of mind [ToM]) are related to listening comprehension and whether listening…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Predictor Variables, Listening Comprehension, Theory of Mind
Breit-Smith, Allison; Busch, Jamie; Guo, Ying – Grantee Submission, 2015
Although a general limited availability of expository texts currently exists in preschool special education classrooms, expository tests offer speech-language pathologists (SLPs) a rich context for addressing the language goals of preschool children with language impairment on their caseloads. Thus, this article highlights the differences between…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
"Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy" was developed to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a literacy professional learning community (PLC). PLCs are a form of professional development in which small groups of educators with shared interests work together with the goals of expanding…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Communities of Practice
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Hagen, Åste M. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of the current study is to determine what language activities Norwegian preschool children took part in, and to examine whether these language activities predict children's language comprehension. We tested children (n = 134) with language measures at age 4/5 and age 5/6 and interviewed their teachers (n = 71) about the kinds of language…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Learning Activities
Easterbrooks, Susan R., Ed.; Dostal, Hannah M., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2020
"The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Literacy" brings together state-of-the-art research on literacy learning among deaf and hard of hearing learners (DHH). With contributions from experts in the field, this volume covers topics such as the importance of language and cognition, phonological or orthographic awareness, morphosyntactic…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Literacy, Brain
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Pfenninger, Simone E. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
This study was designed to investigate the effects of age of onset and type of instruction on ultimate EFL attainment at the end of the period of normal schooling in Switzerland, measured in terms of written fluency, complexity, morphosyntactic accuracy, vocabulary size, and listening skills. Data were gathered from four groups of 18-year-old…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Predictor Variables, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language)
Fischer, Robert A. – 1978
Proponents of the cognitive approach to language teaching list linguistic competence as the primary instructional objective and attribute considerable importance to listening comprehension. For the student, linguistic competence would be knowledge of grammatical components of the language and its vocabulary. Understanding oral messages is an…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Tohtz, Jack E.; Marsh, John L. – Elem Engl, 1970
Discusses possible linguistic factors in children's misconceptions of words in the "Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, the "Lord's Prayer, and "America. (SW)
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Linguistic Performance, Listening Comprehension
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Novoa, Loriana M.; Lazarus, Philip J. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Examines the Test of Language Development-Primary (TOLD-P), an individual test of English language proficiency which has four principal uses: to identify problems in language proficiency: to determine strengths and weaknesses in language skills: to document progress provided by programs; and to serve as a device for research.(NH)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Listening Skills, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Skills
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