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Jade Dunning; Melanie Hodgkinson; Mark Rose; Warren Dunger – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: Adults with intellectual disability, especially those with Down syndrome, are at increased risk of dementia. Whilst memory decline is often considered the earliest symptom, emerging research indicates decline in language, executive function, and non-cognitive domains may also occur early, potentially before memory changes. Method: A…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Down Syndrome, Dementia
Senefonte, Fabio Henrique Rosa – Online Submission, 2018
Underpinned by a postmodern perspective of (teacher) identity, which characterizes it as unstable, multifaceted, unfinished, complex, dynamic, fluid, constructed in relation with others (Bauman, 2005; Bohn, 2005; Hall, 2006; Beijaard et al., 2011 among others), this qualitative research aims at exploring English language teachers' identities…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
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Galante, Angelica; Thomson, Ron I. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
Although the development of second language (L2) oral fluency has been widely investigated over the past several decades, there remains a paucity of research examining language instruction specifically aimed at improving this cognitive skill. In this study, the researchers investigate how instructional techniques adapted from drama can positively…
Descriptors: Drama, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Teaching Methods