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Showing 1 to 20 of 299 for “"Language Skills"”.
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Assessment of a Person’s Language Skills
Cieľom tejto práce bolo vytvoriť aplikáciu, ktorá je ucelená sada testov vo forme hier. Hry boli sústredená na jazykovú doménu a jej poddomény v modele DSM-5. Práca bola od skorého počiatku vytváraná s podporou psychológov a špeciálnych pedagógov z Centra poradenstva a prevence Prievidza. …
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Developing Children’s Vocabulary and Expressive Language Skills Through Play
… of developing the vocabulary and expressive language skills of my junior infants class in an urban co-educational Dublin school. I decided to devote this action research journey to the development of oral language skills through play as a result of my core teaching values and my own school …
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ACQUIRING 21ST CENTURY LANGUAGE SKILLS: A CASE STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENTS' SECOND LANGUAGE SKILLS ON A WORLD LANGUAGE PROGRAM
… of this study was to identify how middle school language teachers bridge the skills acquired and strategies taught in an elementary school language program with the skills taught and practiced at the middle school level. The study will answer in detail this question: What perceptions do middle …
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Developing language skills in second language learners through literature discussions
… and their teacher to examine the benefits to language development. Collected over one school year, data included transcribed audiotapes of the book discussions, class interviews, and personal journal entries of the teacher which described classroom events and interactions. Analysis of the …
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Assessing early sociocognitive and language skills in young Saudi children
Children with early language delay form a heterogeneous group. Although a significant number will catch up and develop language in the normal range, some will continue to have difficulties with language. Predicting the outcome for these children represents a challenging task for clinicians. It has …
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The impact of prematurity on language skills at school age
… Reading Project and included discourse-level language samples collected at three points in time, each a year apart. In addition, standardized test results were obtained for IQ, digit span, and global language ability. The language samples were analyzed to yield a number of semantic and …
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The Relationship of Television Viewing at Home and Toddlers' Language Skills
… toddlers' television viewing at home and their language skills. Two other variables, family socioeconomic status and mothers' levels of education, were included in order to examine if these two variables and the amount of toddlers' TV viewing at home were related to receptive and expressive …
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The Malleability of Cognitive Control and its Effects on Language Skills
… a role for cognitive control in a range of language processing tasks including syntactic ambiguity resolution and verbal fluency. Separate work demonstrates that EF abilities are malleable with extensive practice, such that training improvements transfer across domains to novel tasks that …
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An Attempt to Develop Automatic Sequential Language Skills in Kindergarten Children
… designed to develop automatic-sequential language skills, would differ from a matched control group not receiving such instruction. The design of the study called for the administration of the three ITPA subtests, Visual-Motor Sequencing, Auditory-Vocal Sequencing, and Auditory-Vocal …
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Fostering children's expressive language skills through Aistear: The Early Childhood Curriculum Framework (2009)
… of expression that cultivate and expand on their language skills. Play and play-based learning approaches have been linked synonymously with fostering many aspects of a child’s development, yet contemporary issues on Play highlight an uncertainty on its role within formal education. Aistear is a …
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Literacy and dramatic play: storytelling with props increases preschool children's language skills during play
… children in the prop condition used more story language to describe their roles in action than the children in the control group. Gender difference analyses revealed that parents reported girls to be more engaged with literacy at home, and to use more imagination. Both parents and teachers may …
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Addressing the Higher Level Language Skills for the Common Core State Standards in Kindergarten
… made available to states for adoption critical skills in numeracy and literacy will be uniformed from kindergarten through high school. Some children enter school with a sufficient foundation to support success in kindergarten and subsequent years. However, some children either because of lack …
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Increasing appropriate social communication and pragmatic language skills in young adults with autism spectrum disorders
… have been developed explicitly for use in speech-language therapy with young adults with ASD. As a result, existing interventions have to be adapted to use with this population. The interventions that were adapted were Behavioral Interventions, Developmental Social Pragmatic Interventions, and …
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Increasing appropriate social communication and pragmatic language skills in young adults with autism spectrum disorders
… have been developed explicitly for use in speech-language therapy with young adults with ASD. As a result, existing interventions have to be adapted to use with this population. The interventions that were adapted were Behavioral Interventions, Developmental Social Pragmatic Interventions, and …
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The effects of response interruption and redirection on language skills in children with vocal stereotypy
… vocal stereotypy and increasing appropriate language. However, little is known about the efficacy of RIRD when combined with early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI), the recommended treatment approach for children with ASD, and its effects on the acquisition of language skills. …
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Language Skills, Oral Narrative Production, and Executive Functions of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
<p>This study assessed the language skills, oral narrative abilities, and executive functions (EFs) of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and normal hearing (NH), and examined the differences between two groups as well as the relationships between oral narrative production and EFs.</p> …
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An investigation of relationships between two tests of cognitive processes and two tests of expressive language skills.
… Abilities (ITPA) and the acquisition of language as measured by Say What I Say (SWIS) and Northwestern Syntax Screening Test (NSST), and second, to determine if there is any correlation between language disorders and learning disorders. To do this, data were gathered on both topics and …
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An exploration of teaching and learning in an isiXhosa communicative language skills course in a medical school
… and learning of an isiXhosa Communication Skills course as a Second Language (SL) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The research was an exploration of an isiXhosa language teaching pedagogy with a particular focus on learning and teaching and the usage of isiXhosa in the isiXhosa …
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