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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"literacy acquisition"”.
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Language And Literacy Acquisition And Maintenance Of Sudanese Refugee Learners
… was to more fully understand the language and literacy goals and values of a linguistically diverse Southern Sudanese refugee population residing in the Upper Midwest portion of the United States. The linguistic and cultural demographics of the area's major school district changed consistently …
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Learning styles, teaching styles and literacy acquisition in upper primary school
… understanding of what is being taught to them. Literacy skills play an important part of learning and improving these skills has always been a significant area of interest to all educators. Knowledge about the different ways in which children learn could be of great assistance in developing …
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Speech/Language and Social Behavior Performance as Predictors of Literacy Acquisition in Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects
… the specific relationships between FAS/FAE and literacy acquisition in children. Specific variables of children with FAS/FAE were considered. They included IQ, speech/language development, and social behavior performance.</p><p>Hypotheses guiding this study were the …
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Scientifically based reading research strategies in the preschool classroom: An investigation into quality early childhood reading practices and literacy acquisition in one northern Michigan early reading first program
… and environmental factors related to early literacy acquisition for 173 four-year-old children in nine early childhood classroom programs. Using the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screener (PALS) for Pre-K and the Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation (ELLCO) Scores, student …
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Case Studies of Turkish Children's Literacy and Oral Language Development in English as a Second Language
… them. The students' English oral language and literacy abilities showed a negative relationship, where oral proficiency did not lead to literacy acquisition in the second language. Alp lacked phonological awareness, over-relied on word memorization strategies and remained a poor reader and …
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Do Parents' Literacy Beliefs and Home Literacy Experiences Relate to Children's Literacy Skills?
… study examined the relationship among parents' literacy beliefs, home literacy experiences, and children's literacy skills. Forty-three children, who attended a university preschool, and their parents participated in the study. Parents' literacy beliefs and the home literacy experience, namely …
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The Practices of Speech-Language Pathologists Supporting the Acquisition of Skilled Reading in Public Schools
… (SLPs) who participate in school-wide literacy initiatives within the K-12 educational setting. The study sought to answers the following research questions: RQ1: How do speech-language pathologists indicate they are able to participate in literacy development across multiple tiers of …
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The First Child in a Chinese Family Who Could Read Prior to Entry into Elementary School: A Qualitative Intrinsic Case Study
<p>This study is an account of the literacy-related human environment a Chinese girl experienced as the first person in the history of her family who was able to read prior to entry into elementary school. Temporally speaking, the study spanned more than a decade from the initial, tentative …
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Picturing Literacies and Noticing Main Ideas: Teaching ELL and NES Striving Readers to Notice Main Ideas in Nonfiction Texts
Framed by a sociocultural understanding of literacy acquisition and learning, this research study investigates methods content area teachers can use to meet the needs of adolescent English language learners and native English speakers who struggle to read texts in school. The interventions were …
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PHONOLOGICAL AND LEXICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO READING AND SPELLING IN ENGLISH: A COMPARISON OF ENGLISH-L1, MANDARIN-L1 AND MALAY-L1 BILINGUAL CHILDREN
LITERACY ACQUISITION DEPENDS ON ORAL LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE AND IS INFLUENCED BY CROSS-LINGUISTIC FACTORS (BIALYSTOK, 2002). PHONOLOGICAL MEMORY IS ASSOCIATED WITH VOCABULARY ACQUISITION (GATHERCOLE ET AL., 1992), AND READING (GOSWAMI & BRYANT, 1990) AND SPELLING DEVELOPMENT (BROWN & HULME, 1996), YET …
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Digital storytelling as an astronomy disciplinary literacy enhancement approach for adolescent Kyrgyzstani EFL students
… (STEM-A) on EFL students’ STEM-A disciplinary literacy acquisition in English. The research was motivated by the increased significance of English as an international language of STEM instruction and addressed the transition between discourses encountered by students learning STEM in a foreign …
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Understanding the Challenges Faced by Chinese International Graduate Students in Acquiring Information Literacy: The Impact of Internet Censorship
… face challenges in acquiring information literacy. However, few studies have addressed the influence of Internet censorship. Thus, this study aims to explore the adaptation of Chinese international postgraduate students during the transition from undergraduate study in China to …
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A Systematic Literature Review: Literacy Practices and Roles of Chinese Parents and Chinese Heritage Language Teachers In Chinese Children’s Literacy Learning
… language (CHL) teachers in Chinese children’s literacy learning at home and in the CHL classrooms. Through the theoretical framework that is, in part, premised in a pedagogy of multiliteracies, this SLR generated data from 41 screened articles. The articles are based on Chinese parents and CHL …
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The effectiveness of a multi-sensory phonological awareness and letter knowledge training programme for disadvantaged first graders
… awareness and letter knowledge in the process of literacy acquisition.
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The Effects of Past Experiences on the Vocabulary Use and Sentence Structure of a Two-Year-Old
Literacy acquisition does not begin with the onset of formal instruction in schools. Exposure to all aspects of literacy (reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language) in the home literacy environment before school-age can significantly impact an emergent learner's foundation of literacy. …
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Italian immigrant women and literacy : a case study
… explore why Italian immigrant women enroll in a literacy program in a second language context, second, it presents the sociocultural and psychosocial effects of the course on the women; and finally it states the views of the instructor on issues pertaining to the course and to Italian immigrant …
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Strategies for Teaching Literacy
… spell? How do they best construct meaning from literacy lessons? This study discusses a balanced approach to literacy education examining the use of phonetic and whole-language approaches to instruction. The author examines the benefits of teaching reading and spelling using each approach …
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