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Direct linkDeAnne Rae Paulino Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which the efficacy of the Teaching Early Literacy and Language (TELL) curriculum package for low-income preschoolers was impacted by participant characteristics and variables associated with implementation. In a follow-up to a randomized controlled trial (Gray et al., 2024), data was…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Low Income, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedCássia Geciauskas Sofiato; Orquídea Coelho; Paulo Vaz de Carvalho – Deafness & Education International, 2024
Deaf education officially began in Portugal in 1823, with Pedro Aron Borg, at the invitation of D. João VI and his daughter, D. Isabel. In Brazil, it began in 1857, when Édouard Adolfo Huet Merlo founded the first institution, with the consent of D. Pedro II. The Royal Institute for the Deaf-Mute and the Blind in Lisbon and the Imperial Institute…
Descriptors: Educational History, Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Tempo Po-Yi Tang; Yu-Yin Hsu; Dustin Kai-Yan Lau; Man-Tak Leung – SAGE Open, 2024
Aspect markers (AMs), temporal adverbs (TAs) and temporal nouns (TNs) are used by young Mandarin-speaking children to express time. However, the factors that affect the relative acquisition trajectories of these categories remains unclear. Accordingly, this study adopts Weist's time-concept model to examine the patterns of acquisition between and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Age Differences, Grammar
Pedro Mateo Pedro – First Language, 2024
This article evaluates the acquisition of directionals in Q'anjob'al, a Western Mayan language of Guatemala. The data come from a longitudinal study of two Q'anjob'al monolingual children of Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala: Xhuw (1;9-2;5) and Xhim (2;3-3;5). The results show how these children acquire the morphological distribution of…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Native Language, Language Acquisition, Verbs
Cultivating Cross-Cultural Connections through Language Learning Circles in Early Childhood Programs
Joy Hernandez; Abha Gupta – Reading Teacher, 2024
Spanish is the second most common language among US children aged 5-17, with 26.8% speaking it at home. To foster cultural understanding and promote positive relationships, it's crucial to introduce young children to different languages and cultures. Preschool language education can cultivate respect and empathy, building more inclusive…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Acquisition
Claudia Gherghel; Shoko Yasuda; Yosuke Kita – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
We investigated the effects of social interaction and out-of-class study time on foreign language proficiency and use among two hundred students from a Japanese university who studied abroad for one month. Participants' use of English and English proficiency were measured before and after the programme. Interaction with people from other cultures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Study Abroad, English Language Learners
Nicole Mills; Kristen McInerney – Connected Science Learning, 2024
This brief highlights a toolkit resource to support multilingual learners (MLLs) with literacy in STEM. Bridging Language and Learning: Empowering Multilingual Learners in STEM was created for the Department of Defense and its collaborative network of STEM-focused organizations called the Defense STEM Education Consortium. These partners work…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Multilingualism, Student Empowerment, Literacy
Linda Espey; Marta Ghio; Christian Bellebaum; Laura Bechtold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
We used a novel linguistic training paradigm to investigate the experience-dependent acquisition, representation, and processing of novel emotional and neutral abstract concepts. Participants engaged in mental imagery (n = 32) or lexico-semantic rephrasing (n = 34) of linguistic material during five training sessions and successfully learned the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Concept Teaching, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
Alejandra Abufhele; Agustina Laurito – Child Development, 2024
This paper estimates the acute effect of community-level homicides on early childhood language development and explores the moderating role of maternal efficacy and satisfaction in Chile. It uses data from the 2017 wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey of Chilean Children (N = 1194, M[subscript age]: 52.8 months, 52% girls). Children in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Language Acquisition, Early Experience
Tsung-Ying Chen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Artificial grammar learning (AGL) is an experimental paradigm frequently adopted to investigate the unconscious and conscious learning and application of linguistic knowledge. This paper will introduce ENIGMA (https://enigma-lang.org) as a free, flexible, and lightweight Web-based tool for running online AGL experiments. The application is…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Grammar, Computer Software, Handheld Devices
Laurel Teller; C. Melanie Schuele – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
This study investigated the feasibility of a vocabulary-based teacher intervention to increase preschool teachers' production of complement clauses (e.g. "I wonder if we can put the monkey in the tree") in teacher-children play interactions. Using a multiple baseline across participants design we measured the impact of an intervention…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Education, Phrase Structure, Teacher Student Relationship
Jessie S. Barrot – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
This emerging technology report delves into the role of ChatGPT, an OpenAI conversational AI, in language learning. The initial section introduces ChatGPT's nature and highlights its features, including accessibility, personalization, immersive learning, and instant feedback, which render it a valuable asset for language learners and educators…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Natural Language Processing, Language Acquisition
John S. Y. Lee; Chak Yan Yeung; Zhenqun Yang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
A text recommendation system helps language learners find suitable reading materials. Similar to graded readers, most systems assign difficulty levels or school grades to the documents in their database, and then identify the documents that best match the language proficiency of the learner. This graded approach has two main limitations. First,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
Jesse Gleason; Resha Cardone; Andrew Bartlett – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to take stock of student learning. Although the "crisis-context" (Gacs et al., 2020) move to fully online instruction may be over, a complete understanding of how student outcomes have been impacted remains. The present study focuses on how students' Spanish language proficiency, as…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Language Tests, Spanish
