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Gordon, Moragh; Oudesluijs, Tino; Auer, Anita – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This article contributes to existing studies that are concerned with standardisation and supralocalisation processes in the development of written English during the Early Modern English period. By focussing on and comparing civic records and letter data from important regional urban centres, notably Bristol, Coventry and York, from the period…
Descriptors: English, Language Variation, Urban Areas, Written Language
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Selvaraj, Anne Malar; Azman, Hazita – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
Student feedback is established as an imperative learning and teaching technique, but feedback from students is less likely. The potential of feedback to boost learning outcomes refers to scholarly writing and is considered together as one of the most impressive methods for enhancing the success of students. In education, there is, nevertheless a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Written Language, Instructional Effectiveness, Formative Evaluation
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Wood, Carla L.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Hart, Sara – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
This study aimed to describe 1-year changes in students' vocabulary in written narratives. Secondary aims included examination of accuracy and the relationship between lexical diversity and achievement. Participants included 749 students in first through eighth grades. Within-subjects 1-year change in diversity, productivity, and accuracy was…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Written Language
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Galuschka, Katharina; Görgen, Ruth; Kalmar, Julia; Haberstroh, Stefan; Schmalz, Xenia; Schulte-Körne, Gerd – Educational Psychologist, 2020
This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated the efficacy of spelling interventions for the remediation of dyslexia and spelling deficits. Theoretically important moderators, such as the treatment approach as well as orthographic and sample characteristics, were also considered. Thirty-four controlled trials that evaluated spelling…
Descriptors: Spelling, Intervention, Dyslexia, Children
Sanden, Guro R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the use of the two written Norwegian language standards, Nynorsk and Bokmål, by companies in Norway. By adopting a legal perspective on the language policy of Norway as stipulated by the Language Council of Norway (2005) and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church (2008), the paper investigates how 492 of the largest…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Variation, Written Language, Standards
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Kastberg, Signe E.; Lischka, Alyson E.; Hillman, Susan L. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2020
Mathematics teacher educators' (MTEs') written feedback is an instantiation of teaching practice and provides information to support the developing understanding of prospective teachers (PTs), yet no research has been undertaken to characterize such feedback. Research on feedback forms, including written feedback, has focused on information…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Feedback (Response), Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Liu, Duo; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present study explored the mediating effect of word detection on the relationship between visual-spatial attention and reading comprehension in Chinese. The participants included 287 Hong Kong Chinese children (167 third graders, 84 girls, "mean age" = 8.73, SD = 0.49, and 120 fourth graders, 45 girls, "mean age" = 9.93, SD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Attention
Maung T. Nyeu – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) (Appendix A), a remote region in the south-eastern corner of Bangladesh, children from indigenous mountain tribes are among the country's most illiterate and at the highest risk of dropping out of school (UNDP, 2009). Their school achievement and completion rate fall disastrously short when compared to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Language Minorities
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Cai, Ying; Pan, Zilong; Han, Songhee; Shao, Peixia; Liu, Min – Online Learning, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, from early 2020 onwards, the adoption of synchronous online learning increased rapidly. It offers students a unique learning experience, utilizing communication modes from both in-person and asynchronous online classes. This mixed-methods study examined the impact of modes of communication (visual, bodily behaviors,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Student Experience, Synchronous Communication, Educational Environment
Sato, Eriko – Multilingual Matters, 2022
This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It examines the traces of translanguaging in translated texts with special focus on the strategic use of scripts, morphemes, words, names, onomatopoeias, metaphors, puns and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Applied Linguistics, Translation, Literary Criticism
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Liu, Yanping; Huang, Ren; Gao, Dingguo; Reichle, Erik D. – Cognitive Science, 2017
There are two accounts of how readers of unspaced writing systems (e.g., Chinese) know where to move their eyes: (a) saccades are directed toward default targets (e.g., centers of words that have been segmented in the parafovea); or (b) saccade lengths are adjusted dynamically, as a function of ongoing parafoveal processing. This article reports…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading, Eye Movements, Written Language
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Lee, Icy – TESOL Journal, 2019
Although feedback researchers generally advocate a selective, focused written corrective feedback (FWCF) approach, a large number of second language writing teachers in school contexts still respond to written errors in an unfocused manner. Much of existing written corrective feedback (WCF) research is conducted in experimental classrooms, and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Error Correction, Teacher Attitudes
Kullar, Jasmine K. – Solution Tree, 2019
The success of a school greatly depends on the ability of its leaders to communicate effectively. In "Connecting Through Leadership," author Jasmine K. Kullar details how to verbally and nonverbally inspire, motivate, and connect with every member of a school community, from teachers to students to parents. The book includes questions…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Skill Development, Teacher Leadership, Communication Strategies
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Fernandez, Leigh B.; Bothe, Ricarda; Allen, Shanley E. M. – Second Language Research, 2023
In the current study we used the gaze-contingent moving window paradigm to directly compare the second language (L2) English perceptual span of two groups that speak languages with essentially the same lexicon and grammar but crucially with different writing directions (and scripts): Hindi (read left to right) and Urdu (read right to left). This…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Urdu
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Pupipat, Apisak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study examined written/formal register based on happilyever-after women's fiction conventional blurbs. In particular, the 80 blurbs were equally divided into two types: the classic and mass-marketed. Biber et al. (2021) was used as the framework to extract features to respond to the two research questions: What were the top written/formal…
Descriptors: Females, Novels, Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure
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