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Direct linkKao, Chen-Yao – Educational Psychology, 2022
This research aimed to examine the differential effects of simile and metaphor on creativity. In the main study, 123 participants were recruited from a university in Taiwan. A within-subjects experimental design was used to investigate how variables related to simile and metaphor influenced these participants' fluency and originality scores. As…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Creativity, Foreign Countries, Verbal Communication
Download full textShahini, Gholamhossein; Shahamirian, Fatemeh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This qualitative study, using an open interview, set out to investigate the roles six factors, including age, university education, teachers of English Language institutes, teaching English, dictionary, and note-taking, played in improving English speaking fluency of seventeen fluent Iranian EFL speakers. The participants were chosen purposefully…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
Lam, Elizabeth A.; McMaster, Kristen L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2014
The purpose of this review was to update previous reviews on factors related to students' responsiveness to early literacy intervention. The 14 studies in this synthesis used experimental designs, provided small-group or one-on-one reading interventions, and analyzed factors related to responsiveness to those interventions. Participants were…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Longitudinal Studies
Hsieh, Hui-hua – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
The recruitment of international academic staff is viewed as one of the strategies to internationalise the universities. International academic staff, however, usually encounter many challenges when in a foreign context. This study aims to investigate the challenges of Chinese academic staff teaching in the UK in terms of language, relationships…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, Performance Technology
Gallegos, Carol; Wise, Donald – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2011
This article discusses the decisions that school leaders must make to reclassify students as fluent and proficient in English and the implications that reclassification decisions could have for the future achievement of those students. The study examined the achievement gap between English learners and the overall student population and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition
Bouzidi, Hassan – English Teaching Forum, 2009
Since the launch of far-reaching higher education reforms several years ago, many institutions across Morocco have begun revamping their English for Special Purposes (ESP) programs to bring them in line with the needs of local employers. These reforms recognize the correlation between what students learn in class and success in their future…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, Hospitality Occupations, Textbooks
Peer reviewedGaines, Natalie D.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
Stuttered sentences pronounced by 12 4- to 6-year-old children in spontaneous conversation were analyzed for length and grammatical complexity. Results indicated that sentences in which stuttering occurred within the first three words were significantly longer and more complex than sentences where no fluency failure was found. Implications for…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Grammar, Language Fluency, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedBrandt, Elizabeth A. – School Psychology Review, 1984
The authors believe the McShane and Plas literature review (TM 508 781) did not critically examine the methodological or theoretical problems in the cited studies. This uncritical examination resulted in a profile of Native American performance which did not control for English language fluency or for normal versus handicapped Indian populations.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Tests
Peer reviewedMarshall, Robert C.; Cullinan, Walter L. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Child Language, Language Fluency
Peer reviewedLeBlanc, Renaud S.; Muise, J. Gerard – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, English, French, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedLevey, Sandra; Schwartz, Richard G. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2002
A study examined the ability of 10 two-year-olds to produce minimal pairs of novel trisyllabic words with primary stress on the first or second syllables. The syllables contained dissimilar or similar vowel contrasts to determine if segments affected omission. Omission was more frequent for the first syllable of weak-strong-weak word pairs.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Disorders, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedHall, Nancy; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Ten preschool subjects exhibiting more disfluencies than 50 other subjects with language disorders were found to be older and score higher on vocabulary. Findings suggest some children with language disorders are at risk for fluency breakdown because of dysynchronies in development of lexical and syntactic aspects of language or as a result of…
Descriptors: Age, Communication Problems, Etiology, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedHamre, C. E. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Information Processing, Language Fluency
Peer reviewedOjerinde, Adedibu – Adolescence, 1982
Investigated the effect of the medium of instruction and medium of examination on the achievement of Nigerian primary school pupils (N=599). Pupils were given differential treatments using either the Yoruba language or English. Results indicated that groups instructed in their mother tongue (Yoruba) performed better than the remaining groups.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedMeyers, Susan C. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1990
The conversations of 12 preschool stutterers with their mother, father, and a familiar peer were analyzed. Subjects' verbal interactive patterns did not really differ with various partners. Although some children were variable in fluency failures with different partners, the partner's verbal contribution was not associated with predictable changes…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Expressive Language, Interpersonal Communication, Language Fluency
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