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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"language experience"”.
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Bilingualism and executive functioning: language experience as more than a binary variable.
… of the argument claims that certain bilingual experiences lead to practice and therefore improvement in executive control. Others draw attention to a possible publication bias, a recent series of null results and the large-scale variance within bilingual populations. <br/><br/>The current work …
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The Effect of Sentence Combining Instruction of Language Experience Stories Upon Paragraph Comprehension
… the effect of sentence-combining instruction of language experience stories upon paragraph comprehension of forty-three fourth grade students. The students were divided into an experimental group and control group and administered the Nelson Reading Test prior to the five week intervention …
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THE EFFECTS OF NATIVE LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE ON THE PHONOLOGICAL PERCEPTION OF COMPLEX LABIAL-VELAR STOPS
This study investigates the effects of native language experience and phonetic properties on the discrimination of labial-velar versus labial and velar contrasts, as well as voicing contrasts in labials, velars, and labial-velars. Research indicates that phonological perceptions are influenced by …
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The Effects of Attentional Focus, Presentation Mode, and Language Experience on Second Language Learners' Sentence Processing
… focus, presentation mode, and level of language experience on second language (L2) learners' processing of Object-Verb-Subject sentences in Spanish. The Competition Model and the first language sentence processing research that centers on it served as one source of insight into the …
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A Comparison of the Effect of the Language- Experience Approach and the Basal Approach on Reading Achievement
… the effectiveness of the basal method versus the language experience method on reading achievement. The review of the literature covered a wide variety of sources including <strong>several</strong> books, journals, dissertations, and reports by professional organizations.</p> <p>Five questions …
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The effects of illustration inclusion, placement, and type, and target language experience on foreign language learners' comprehension of text
Both first language (L1) and second language (L2) reading research have suggested that illustrations facilitate comprehension, though results have been disparate. Moreover, L2 research has been minimal and many variables shown to be important in the L1 literature have not been manipulated in L2 …
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The effects of task, language of assessment, and target language experience on foreign language learners performance on reading comprehension tests
Current foreign language reading research is disparate in nature. Researchers use a variety of assessment tasks which may or may not be comparable across studies. Some tasks are carried out in the subjects' native language while others are performed in the target language. Furthermore, the …
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The effects of simplification, linguistic item, and language experience on second language learners' attention to form contained in the input
… that during the early stages of second language acquisition (SLA), constraints on adult second language (L2) learners' information processing mechanism are largely responsible for what is attended to in the input. Recently, some psycholinguistic studies have begun to investigate the …
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A descriptive study of the effects of language experience based lesson strategies on the reading self-concept and reading performance of selected fifth grade students
… of this study to examine the use of the natural language of the five subjects identified as having low reading self-concept as the basis for reading instruction, and to analyze, before and after the treatment period, the miscues of the subjects to determine if the use of the language experience …
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The generation effect and word learning: a test of the effect of the language experience approach versus the text approach in the acquisition of new reading vocabulary
… the study. Eleven children were assigned to the language experience group and their partners became the text group. Each member of the language experience group generated a list of eight to be learned words. The treatment consisted of exposing the student to a given word three times per session …
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Reading experience predicts eye movements during online auditory comprehension
Current theories of language processing suggest that individuals use the probabilities in the language they experience to constrain comprehension as language unfolds, predicting that properties of the linguistic input, such as frequency and predictability, will affect online processing (MacDonald, …
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The efficacy of assisted reading as a strategy for facilitating the reading success of adult disabled readers
… was to examine the effectiveness of a whole language reading strategy using two different types of texts, regular text and language experience text in teaching adults to read. The participants were four prison inmates between the ages of twenty-six and twenty-eight. Data were collected during …
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A Comparative Study of a General and Linguistic Language Approach in a Sixth Grade Classroom
… Harbrace series, will not produce higher language understandings than the general language-experience approach 9 Pollock and Straub series. The member of this study were culturally deprived sixth grade students at Garfield, Yakima, Washington.
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Spanish Morphosyntactic Performance Based on Spanish-English Bilingual Exposure and Usage
This study examines the interaction between language experience and Spanish morphosyntactic development using longitudinal data of Spanish-English bilingual children with typical language development (TD) and developmental language disorder (DLD). Specifically, this study explores how language …
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Effects of auditory feedback and real-time visual feedback on second language tone learning
… processed by the right hemisphere for non-tonal language speakers, lexical tone as well as other language aspects (such as phonemes, syntax and semantics) appears to be processed by the left hemisphere for tonal language speakers. Adult second language (L2) learners of Mandarin whose native …
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Letter reading by bilinguals as a function of approximation to english and french
… present study was to control for the Ss' past experience with English and French in order to determine whether faster reading on French texts was due to past language experience or to the greater redundancy of French. Balanced bilinguals were asked to read zero-, first-, and second-order …
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Individual differences in syntactic processing during reading: a psycholinguist’s “two disciplines” problem
… assess their abilities in the following areas: language experience, phonological ability, working memory, inhibitory control, and perceptual speed. Three syntactic phenomena were chosen for the current investigation: the relative processing difficulty for object- versus subject-extracted …
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