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Ramon-Casas, Marta; Cortes, Susana; Benet, Ariadna; Lleo, Conxita; Bosch, Laura – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study investigates perception and production of the Catalan mid-vowel /e/-/[epsilon]/ contrast by two groups of 4.5-year-old Catalan-Spanish bilingual children, differing in language dominance. Perception was assessed with an XAB discrimination task involving familiar words and non-words. Production accuracy was measured using a familiar-word…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Young Children, Spanish, Language Dominance
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Pardede, Parlindungan – Journal of English Teaching, 2023
To English educators and researchers, having a good grasp of what a language is and how language learning takes place is important. To a certain extent, surveying language study development is a good start to achieving the goal. This article is the second part of a literature review summarizing language studies taking place along the history of…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Language Research, Language Usage, Diachronic Linguistics
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Brodsky, Jessica E.; Bergson, Zachary; Chen, Ming; Hayward, Elizabeth O.; Plass, Jan L.; Homer, Bruce D. – Child Development, 2023
Executive functions' (EF) role in adolescents' advanced theory of mind (aToM) was examined. In Study 1, adolescents (N = 189 in 2017, M[subscript age] = 13.1 years, 55.6% female from racially/ethnically diverse schools) completed the Flexibility and Automaticity of Social Cognition task (FASC), and shifting and inhibition measures. Study 2…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Theory of Mind, Executive Function, Social Cognition
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Snell, Julia; Cushing, Ian – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2023
In this article, we show how Ofsted operates as institutional language police, and how the inspectorate's attitudes about language maintain race-class inequalities under a guise of social justice, equality and evidence-based practice. Our research has repeatedly demonstrated how Ofsted reproduces long-standing, deficit-based and colonial logics…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Race, Social Class
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Ragnarsdóttir, Hanna; Benediktsson, Artëm Ingmar; Emilsson Peskova, Renata – Multicultural Education Review, 2023
This article aims at exploring family language policies and practices of immigrant families in Iceland as well as educational practices and partnerships in their children's preschools. The article draws on interviews with preschool principals and teachers in three preschools in Iceland, and presents findings related to state, municipal, and school…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Preschools, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism
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Rebecca Treiman; Brett Kessler – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
The English writing system is often seen as having rules that govern the choice between alternative pronunciations of letters but as having many exceptions to the rules. One postulated rule, the V¯|CV rule, is that a vowel is pronounced as long rather than short when it is followed by a single consonant letter plus a vowel letter. We find, in an…
Descriptors: Phonics, English, Spelling, Reading Processes
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Nassif, Lama; Shapiro, Shawna – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
Code use, including codeswitching and/or style-shifting, is an important but undertaught aspect of L2 sociolinguistic competence, and an important aspect of L2 learners' translanguaging repertoires. This study examines code use in Arabic--a diglossic language with distinct social uses for the prestige variety (Modern Standard Arabic, MSA) and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Arabic, Sociolinguistics
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Sato, Masatoshi – Language Teaching, 2022
Research into peer interaction continues to grow and new findings with new designs have been reported. However, there remain theoretical and methodological issues that replication studies can address. In this article, I first discuss theoretical frameworks that have been used to investigate peer interaction, namely, interactionist, sociocultural,…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Interaction, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
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Johnson, Dan R.; Hass, Richard W. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2022
The ability to search memory for diverse contextual usages of words is proposed to play a role in creative idea generation. However, it is not yet known whether searching for more diverse contextual usages of words enhances the novelty of ideas during idea generation. In three experiments, participants were given a noun as a creativity prompt…
Descriptors: Semantics, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Language Usage
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Ruth Li – Written Communication, 2025
Students are expected to interpret the complexities and nuances of literary texts yet might struggle with interpreting texts in ways that are valued in literary studies. Examining students' language choices can support instructors and students with developing concrete, explicit understandings of the ways language creates meanings in discourse.…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Writing (Composition), Literature Appreciation, Metalinguistics
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Kathryn B. Wiseman; Tiana M. Cowan; Lauren Calandruccio; Elizabeth A. Walker; Barbara Rodriguez; Jacob J. Oleson; Ryan W. McCreery; Lori J. Leibold; Emily Buss – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This report compares device use in a cohort of Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual children who are deaf and hard of hearing, including children fitted with traditional hearing aids, cochlear implants (CIs), and/or bone-conduction hearing devices. Method: Participants were 84 Spanish-English bilingual children and 85 English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Spanish, English
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Paola Escudero; Chloé Diskin-Holdaway; Gloria Pino Escobar; John Hajek – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
This paper reports on a survey conducted in Australia among parents raising their children with a heritage language (HL). We found strong awareness of the importance of HL maintenance (95%), but only moderate levels of engagement (37-44%) with community initiatives for HL support. There were significantly more primary school-aged children reported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Parent Attitudes, Language Usage
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Mayu Aoki; Yukiko Asami-Johansson; Carl Winsløw – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
Natural language is known to play a crucial and specific role for children's learning in school mathematics. Not only does it carry special vocabulary, but subtle differences between natural languages may lead to surprising challenges, for instance, for learners who are not taught mathematics in their mother tongue. In this paper, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Mathematics Instruction, Language Role
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Brenton Doecke; John Yandell – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
So much emphasis is placed these days on measuring the performance of pupils that it is difficult to imagine the social space of the classroom being used for any other purpose. But our intention in this essay is not to succumb to pessimism about the surveillance imposed by standards-based reforms. Such bleak determinism can be challenged by…
Descriptors: Praxis, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Experience, Learning Experience
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Tetyana Lunyova; Ursula Lanvers; Oksana Zelik – Language Policy, 2025
For centuries, Ukraine has been a site of conflicts over language rights. During 70 years of Soviet leadership, Ukraine experienced'relentless Russification' (Reznik in Language of conflict: discourses of the Ukrainian crisis (pp. 169-191). Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2020 p. 170). After breaking from Soviet rule, the Ukrainian language became…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Russian, Language Planning
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