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Wofford, Mary Claire; Wood, Carla L. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2019
Oral narrative retells are rich sources of information for language development. Investigators collected English-language oral narrative retells during the fall and spring from 65 Spanish-English-speaking dual language learners (DLL) in kindergarten and first grade. Investigators examined transcripts of oral narratives for (a) inclusion and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grammar, Verbs, Bilingualism
Lindsay Meyer Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over the years, less attention is given to students' spelling skills compared to other areas of literacy achievement like word reading and passage comprehension in relationship to nonmainstream dialect usage. Considering that English spelling is based on the phonological and morphological structures of Mainstream American English (MAE), it is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Black Dialects, Spelling, Grade 1
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Kohnen, Saskia; Colenbrander, Danielle; Krajenbrink, Trudy; Nickels, Lyndsey – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2015
The main aim of this study was to develop standardised tests that assess some of the most important spelling skills for children in primary school: sound-letter mappings (non-lexical spelling) and word spelling accuracy (lexical spelling). We present normative comparison data for children in Grades 1-7 as well as measures of validity and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Spelling, Primary Education