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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"English-speaking children"”.
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The Code-Switching Behavior of Three Mandarin-English Speaking Children
… did not emerge as a primary determinant of the children's language choice. Further research needs to explore the role of settings in bilingual children's use of code-switching because the children in this study tended to associate languages with participants, and the participants were relatively …
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Factors that affect biliteracy development and maintenance of Swahili in bilingual (Swahili-English) speaking children
… the bilingual and biliteracy (Swahili-English) development of two elementary and three middle school Kenyan children across home and school contexts in the United States. Guided by sociocognitive and sociocultural theories of language and literacy, the study explores the factors at home …
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Stages in Chinese Children's Reading of English Words
… examined the developmental stages in Chinese children's reading of English words in 118 English as a second language (ESL) children from Grade 2, 4, and 6 (M age = 7:6, 10:5, and 12:5 years, respectively) from a working-class elementary school in Tian Jin, China. Six ability tests measuring …
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The developmental progression of cognitive-linguistic skills in emergent bilingual children
… upon literacy development in monolingual, English speaking children, very little research has been conducted regarding the problems encountered by children learning English as an additional language (EAL). Recent political and educational concerns have been the educational under-achievement …
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Examination Of Speech Disfluencies In The Story Generation Narratives Of Bidialectal Children
… that were created based on monolingual English-speaking norms. Specifically, research has already revealed that bilingual Spanish-English speaking children are at an increased risk for misdiagnosis of stuttering. The purpose of this study was to determine if bidialectal children who …
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Equity and Excellence in Education: The Fiscal and Legal Implications
… in the schools in the past (e.g., blacks, non-English speaking children, and children who live in property-poor districts). Based on past history and these preliminary results, the excellence-in-education movement has started to have a deleterious effect on the equity interests of the groups of …
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The effect of phonological working memory on children's Chinese spoken word learning
… of this study was to investigate how well English speaking children’s phonological working memory can predict their ability to learn Chinese spoken words. Standard Chinese (Mandarin) is considered in this study and thus both terms (Chinese and Mandarin) will be used interchangeably. …
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An investigation of the reliability and validity of the Grover developmental charts for very young children
… the Grover Developmental Charts for very young children between 10 and 36 months was carried out. A total of 108 white, English speaking children of both sexes, were selected from crèches and private homes in the Cape Peninsula. The subjects were tested on the Grover Developmental charts and …
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Comparing Differences in Expressive Language Quantity and Quality between School-Aged Children Playing with Traditional and Electronic Toys
… study focuses on the expressive language of English-dominant, school-aged children playing with traditional and electronic toys. Method: Four English speaking children between the ages of 5;4 (year; month) and 8;9 were audio and video recorded during individual 20-minute sessions. Each played …
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Whole-exome sequencing variant prioritization in individuals with tense and agreement marking deficit— a clinical marker of specific language impairment
… The TEGI is known for its ability to distinguish children with and without SLI at a young age (normed for children ages 3;0 to 8;11 years) and is based in linguistic theory of tense and agreement marking acquisition in English-speaking children. Individuals with SLI, as measured by performance on …
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Exploring the Growth of Text-Reading Fluency in Upper-Elementary English Language Learners during Instruction based on Repeated Reading
For the large population of school-age English language learners in California and the United States, the challenge of learning a second language while learning academic content is formidable. Learning to read English skillfully is key to their success. Reading instruction focused on development of …
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The comprehension skills of children learning English as an additional language (EAL)
The attainment gap between monolingual, English-speaking children and children learning EAL is a continuing cause for concern (NALDIC, 2004). Investigations into EAL learners' literacy skills have identified comprehension as a key area of difficulty for this group (e.g. Hutchinson, Whiteley, Smith …
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3- to 4-year-old children adapt to recent experience to learn novel words
"Infants and young children can use linguistic context to infer the meaning of novel words, and they can also adjust their expectations about the current linguistic context based on recent linguistic input. Havron et al. (2019) were the first to show that preschool children can use recently adapted …
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Word learning strategies in early childhood : mutual exclusivity across language backgrounds
… nature of word learning, infants and young children successfully learn new words at a rapid pace. As most research has focused on the word learning strategies used by monolingual English-speaking children, less is known about how bilingual children manage ambiguity and learn new words. As …
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PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS SKILL OF SEGMENTING IN BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH SPEAKING 4- AND 5-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN
… of phonological awareness PA), in bilingual English/Spanish-speaking 4-and 5-year-old children at the levels of syllable, onset-rime and phoneme. The results of this study were then compared to a previous study that explored PA skill development in monolingual English speaking children of the …
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PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS SKILL OF SEGMENTING IN BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH SPEAKING 4- AND 5-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN
… of phonological awareness PA), in bilingual English/Spanish-speaking 4-and 5-year-old children at the levels of syllable, onset-rime and phoneme. The results of this study were then compared to a previous study that explored PA skill development in monolingual English speaking children of the …
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Multilingual Language Acquisition in Arabic-English Speaking Families: The Role of Parent Sex and Parent Education in Caregiver Report of Children’s Language Skills
… and clinical research literature focusing on English language acquisition is generally based on a model that presumes that the oral language a child acquires at home without formal instruction is the same language that is used for reading and writing. Arabic presents a qualitatively different …
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The acquisition of raising
… investigation into typically developing children's acquisition of subject-to-subject (StS) raising. In particular, it asks how English-speaking children come to comprehend a StS raised sentence like (1) versus its semantically equivalent unraised counterpart (2), and how the presence of …
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Standardization of Oral Cloze as a Language Assessment Device for Bilingual Hispanic Children
… for and normed on bilingual Hispanic children. Tests available for bilingual Hispanic children over 7 years of age were especially sparse. Most tests in current use were biased due to norming on non-Hispanic monolingual English speaking children. PL 94-142, Education of the Handicapped …
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Production and comprehension of verb agreement morphology in Spanish and English child L2 learners: evidence for the effects of morphological structure
… structure of the language may have an effect on children’s verbal morphology acquisition. However, it is basically unknown whether this is also true for L2 acquisition or, if in contrast, all child L2 learners show similar patterns of verbal morphology acquisition regardless of the L2. The …
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