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Wang, Hua-Chen; Li, Luan; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine; Castles, Anne – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Morphological knowledge is known to be positively associated with reading ability. However, whether morphological knowledge affects children's learning of new orthographic representations is less clear. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate morphological effects on orthographic learning in English, and whether this effect, if any, is different…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Learning Processes, Spelling, Task Analysis
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Tzagkourni, Evangelia; Chlapana, Elissavet; Zaranis, Nicholas – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The purpose of this present study is to explore the effect of an instructional approach that utilizes Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) and is based on Van Hiele's levels of geometric thought and Hoffer's skills that describe them, for the instruction of the English Alphabet. The sample of the present research consisted of Greek…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Intervention
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Lin, Tzu-Jung; Chen, Jing; Lu, Monica; Sun, Jing; Purtell, Kelly; Ansari, Arya; Justice, Laura – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine how classroom language contexts characterized by peer language skills and proportions of dual language learners (DLL) influenced English language development for DLL and non-DLL children. Participants were 2,131 children from 135 classrooms across preschool through Grade 3. Children were classified into…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Brown, Sally – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
There is a need to gain insight into the ways technology positively impacts the literacy development of young children learning English as a new language given public scrutiny about the use of technology in early childhood classrooms. When thinking about the future, being multiliterate is important and requires learners to make, remake, and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Technology Uses in Education
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Rosborough, Alessandro – Journal of Pedagogy, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mediational role of gesture and body movement/positioning between a teacher and an English language learner in a second-grade classroom. Responding to Thibault's (2011) call for understanding language through whole-body sense making, aspects of gesture and body positioning were analyzed for…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Role
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DaSilva Iddings, Ana Christina; Katz, Laurie – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2007
The negotiation of integrated home and school identities of 3 second grade Hispanic English language learners (ELLs) included in an English-dominant classroom are explored through sociocultural paradigms, with an emphasis on the role of the individual's agency in the social construction of identities. In addition, we examine the conditions within…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 2, Educational Opportunities, English (Second Language)
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Leikin, Mark; Share, David L.; Schwartz, Mila – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
The present study examined factors that influence the process of learning to read in a second language. The Hebrew reading comprehension skills of 68 Russian-speaking children (mean age 7 years 6 months) were screened at the start of Grade 2. From this sample, 40 participants were selected: 20 successful learners and 20 unsuccessful learners.…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Russian, Reading Difficulties, Learning Processes
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Yazigi, Rana; Seedhouse, Paul – TESL-EJ, 2005
Although "Sharing Time" is a popular and widespread activity in English for Young Learners (L2) classrooms around the world, there have so far been no research studies of the interaction that is generated and its relationship to learning processes. The aims of this study were to find out how interaction is organized during "Sharing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs