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Jacobus Francois Wolfaardt; Alex Ho-Cheong Leung – Applied Linguistics, 2025
This study investigates the impact of Filipina domestic workers (FilDWs), a marginalized group in Hong Kong (HK), on HK children's language development. It focusses on FilDWs' influence on the second language (L2) English of bilingual HK primary school children attending an English Medium of Instruction school. The elements investigated are L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Housework, Service Occupations
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Kim, Sunyoung; Kang, Veronica; Kim, Hanae; Wang, Jing; Gregori, Emily – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2023
English language development is a critical component for young children's school readiness. In this study, we examined the effect of "Read it again-Pre-K!" (Justice and McGinty in Read it again!-Prek: a preschool curriculum supplement to promote language and literacy foundations, Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Literacy Education, Korean, English (Second Language)
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Omar, Ainon – International Journal of Early Childhood Education and Care, 2016
Vocabulary knowledge and acquisition plays an important role in learning a second language as well as developing children's literacy skills. The effectiveness of the read-aloud technique to increase children's vocabulary knowledge and construction of meaning has been widely studied. Teachers need to employ effective instructional strategies to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Aloud to Others, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development
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Kieffer, Michael J.; Box, Catherine DiFelice – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study investigated the multiple roles of morphological awareness in reading comprehension for Spanish-speaking language minority (LM) learners and their native English-speaking (NE) peers. Sixth-grade students (N = 137; 82 LM, 55 NE) were assessed on English measures of derivational morphological awareness, morphologically complex academic…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Speech Communication
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Woodall, Billy – TESOL Journal, 2010
This study investigated the effects of simultaneously reading and listening to the same text on comprehension and fluency gains for basic-level English language learners at a university in Puerto Rico. The quiz scores and fluency rates of two English lab groups (n = 69) who read and listened to E. B. White's novel "Charlotte's Web" were…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Tests, Literature Appreciation
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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