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Park, Grace Jeongyeon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The so-called compound use of ki 'im has been interpreted mainly either with exceptive ("except" or "unless") or adversative meaning ("but" or "rather"), although it has sometimes also been interpreted in other ways such as "only" or "surely". These various meanings have been applied…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Semitic Languages, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Conner, Peggy S.; Hyun, Jungmoon; O'Connor Wells, Barbara; Anema, Inge; Goral, Mira; Monereau-Merry, Marie-Michelle; Rubino, Daniel; Kuckuk, Raija; Obler, Loraine K. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
To investigate whether idiom production was vulnerable to age-related difficulties, we asked 40 younger (ages 18-30) and 40 older healthy adults (ages 60-85) to produce idiomatic expressions in a story-completion task. Younger adults produced significantly more correct idiom responses (73%) than did older adults (60%). When older adults generated…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Cues, Age Differences, Figurative Language
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Rice, Jeff – Composition Studies, 2011
Walter Ong tells us that the noetic--the rhetorical characteristics of feeling, sensation, and intuition applied to a given communicative situation or act--stems from the oral tradition. The noetic contrasts with the print legacy of argument in which "teaching something is the same as 'proving' it'" ("Ramus" 156). Ong's sense…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Oral Tradition, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Ravet, Jackie – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
This paper explores some of the tensions that frequently arise in debates about inclusion and the education of children and young people on the autism spectrum. This debate is often characterised by bipolar thinking and moral posturing, and is obscured by misunderstandings and omissions. This can create confusion for practitioners trying their…
Descriptors: Autism, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Vaish, Viniti; Roslan, Mardiana – World Englishes, 2011
This paper explores the way a group of pre-teens in Singapore use Malay, Chinese and English to perform identity. It is based on one case study of a Malay girl, Syafiqah, from a larger project called The Sociolinguistic Survey of Singapore 2006, and does not claim to be generalizable. The data are transcripts of recordings made on the speech…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification, English, Mandarin Chinese
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Önen, Serap – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The growth of English into a lingua franca has inevitably created linguistic deviations and innovations in the use of English. These emerging uses that result from the needs and preferences of speakers whose mother tongues are all different can be broadly identified as lexico-grammatical and pronunciation features and they compose one of the main…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Grünloh, Thomas; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Language Learning and Development, 2015
In the current study we investigate whether 2- and 3-year-old German children use intonation productively to mark the informational status of referents. Using a story-telling task, we compared children's and adults' intonational realization via pitch accent (H*, L* and de-accentuation) of New, Given, and Contrastive referents. Both children and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Patterns
Bruening, Paul Reeves – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study compared children's (N=96, mean age 4;1, range 2;8-5;3) and adults. (N=96, mean age 21 years) tolerance of word-onset modifications (e.g., "wabbit" and "warabbit") and pseudo affixes (e.g., "kocat" and "catko") in a label extension task. Trials comprised an introductory phase where children saw a picture of an animal and were told its…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Adults, Children
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Peressotti, Francesca; Mulatti, Claudio; Job, Remo – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
In this article, the position of the diverging letter effect has been used to investigate the interactions between lexical and sublexical information during reading acquisition. The position of the diverging letter effect refers to the fact that nonwords derived from words by changing a letter are read more quickly when the diverging letter is…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Alphabets, Children, Literacy
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Srinivasan, Mahesh; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2010
When we describe time, we often use the language of space ("The movie was long"; "The deadline is approaching"). Experiments 1-3 asked whether--as patterns in language suggest--a structural similarity between representations of spatial length and temporal duration is easier to access than one between length and other dimensions of experience, such…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Cues, Infants, Experiments
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Newland, Abby – Art Education, 2013
This article focuses on the connection between the visual arts and language arts with the many teaching and learning possibilities that may arise from an art curriculum infused with language arts. As a K-5 art specialist in a rural Georgia public school, the author feels passionately about the importance of interdisciplinary art education for…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Language Arts, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Yang, Chunsheng; Xie, Ying – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
This paper reports on an action research study using iPads during the teaching of Chinese idioms to heritage learners. A class of 12 second-year Chinese learners were engaged in a self-generated learning process focused on learning abstract and concrete idioms using iPads. Students' short-term and long-term learning was measured; feedback from a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction
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Fisher, Douglas; Lapp, Diane – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
In this article, we focus on instructional support for 91 students who speak African American Vernacular English and who are at high risk for not passing the required state exams. We profile the instruction that was provided and the results from that instruction, providing examples of how students' language was scaffolded such that they could code…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Culture, At Risk Students, State Standards
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Grainger, Karen – Language and Education, 2013
It is a long-standing and commonly held belief in the United Kingdom and elsewhere that the use of elite forms of language reflects superior intellect and education. Expert opinion from sociolinguistics, however, contends that such a view is the result of middle-class bias and cannot be scientifically justified. In the 1960s and 1970s, such…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Language Usage, Middle Class
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Alali, Fatima A.; Schmitt, Norbert – TESOL Journal, 2012
Formulaic language is an important component of discourse and needs to be addressed in teaching pedagogy. Unfortunately, there has been little research into the most effective ways of teaching formulaic language. In this study, Kuwaiti students were taught words and idioms using the same teaching methodologies, and their learning was measured. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
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