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Cromdal, Jakob – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1999
In this study, metalinguistic ability is studied in terms of dual skill components: control of linguistic processing and analysis of linguistic knowledge. English-Swedish bilinguals (n=38), assigned to two groups according to relative proficiency, and 16 Swedish monolinguals, aged 6 to 7 years, received three tasks: symbol substitution,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing
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Shuttleworth, Mark – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1997
A response to a paper on Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) and the training of translators focuses on the paper's criticism of the theoretical basis for teaching and evaluating student work. It discusses how criteria for evaluation of translations are determined and the role of the client/audience in this process. (MSE)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Interpretive Skills
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Skehan, Peter – Applied Linguistics, 1996
Examines proposals for task-based approaches to instruction, reviews relevant research, investigates developments in cognitive psychology, proposes a framework for the implementation of task-based instruction drawing upon relevant theory, and organizes the methods to implement such instruction so as to minimize problems and maximize goal…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cognitive Psychology, Course Content, Goal Orientation
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Lyster, Roy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1994
It is proposed that negotiation of form can be effective in language immersion instruction. Students are pushed to produce ever more accurate and appropriate utterances, drawing on their own sociolinguistic resources. Examples are provided from an eighth-grade classroom where the teacher uses feedback, questioning, discussion, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Baltova, Iva – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1994
A study investigated the role of video and/or sound in the processing of aural French as a second language in grade-eight core French. Results indicate visual cues were informative and enhanced general comprehension but did not necessarily stimulate understanding of the specific text. Affective and attentional advantages were noted. (Contains 28…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Audiovisual Aids, French, Grade 8
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Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Investigates the role of morphological structure in the representation and processing of Mandarin Chinese compounds. Results provide evidence against single-layer, morpheme-based models of the Chinese mental lexicon, pointing instead to a two-layer, whole-word and morphemic model (the Multi-Level Cluster Representation Model). (67 references)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics
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Tichenor, Mercedes S.; Bock, Anna Maria; Sumner, Mary Ann – Reading Improvement, 1999
Describes the specific aspects of a collaborative project designed to encourage teen parents to read to their children and discusses how various organizations were involved. Includes a bibliography of children's books and support materials purchased for the program. (NH)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Early Intervention, Early Parenthood, High Risk Students
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Share, David L.; Shalev, Carmit – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
This study set out to investigate the self-teaching of good and poor readers in pointed Hebrew--a highly regular orthography. Four groups of children (three groups in Grades 4 to 6, and one group in Grade 2) were included in this study; poor readers with large discrepancies between IQ and reading ("dyslexics"), IQ-nondiscrepant poor…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Semitic Languages, Intelligence Quotient, Elementary School Students
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Taguchi, Naoko – Modern Language Journal, 2005
This study investigated whether second language (L2) proficiency affects pragmatic comprehension, namely the ability to comprehend implied meaning in spoken dialogues, in terms of accuracy and speed of comprehension. Participants included 46 native English speakers at a U.S. university and 160 Japanese students of English in a college in Japan who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, English (Second Language), Language Processing
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Dussias, Paola E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This study investigates whether proficient second language (L2) speakers of Spanish and English use the same parsing strategies as monolinguals when reading temporarily ambiguous sentences containing a complex noun phrase followed by a relative clause, such as "Peter fell in love with the daughter of the psychologist who studied in California."…
Descriptors: Syntax, Nouns, Figurative Language, Monolingualism
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Marton, Klara; Schwartz, Richard G.; Farkas, Lajos; Katsnelson, Valeriya – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2006
Background: English-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) perform more poorly than their typically developing peers in verbal working memory tasks where processing and storage are simultaneously required. Hungarian is a language with a relatively free word order and a rich agglutinative morphology. Aims: To examine the effect…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Linguistics, Sentences, Language Acquisition
Scheffel, Debora L. – 1997
A study examined the differences between 17 children with language disorders and 20 children with normal language development (ages 8-13) in the way they developed shared knowledge with an adult using an interactive communication task. The structure interaction map task involved the child describing a route through a simple schematic map to an…
Descriptors: Children, Disability Identification, Discriminant Analysis, Elementary Education
Mokhtar, Fattawi B. – 1997
The purpose of this study was to investigate viewers' knowledge of program content under various television translation modes and viewing experiences. Subjects were 176 students from the Center for Matriculation Program, Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia. The Spanish version of an instructional television program was used; the program…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Yamashita, Hiroko – 1996
Three experiments investigated whether word order and case markers play a role in the native speaker's comprehension of Japanese. In Japanese, verbs are at the clause-final position and the order of words other than the verb appear to be flexible. The fact that verb information does not become available until the end of a clause suggests that…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Lager, Mark A. – 1996
This paper focuses on techniques for retrieval used in information sciences and in World Wide Web search engines. The purpose of reference service and information science is to provide useful information in response to a query. The two metrics of recall and precision serve to express information retrieval performance. There are two major…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Directories, Indexing
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