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Velásquez-Hoyos, Angela Patricia – HOW, 2021
The present qualitative study with an action research orientation focuses on the strengthening of students' oral fluency in English through the implementation of six theme-based teaching workshops. The participants were students of an EFL pre-intermediate English language course in the institute of foreign languages at the Technological University…
Descriptors: Thematic Approach, Oral Language, Language Fluency, College Students
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Wattad, Haneen; Abu Rabia, Salim – Reading Psychology, 2020
This article presents a review of studies that investigated the advantage of morphological awareness and knowledge of basic morphemes that comprise verbs in Arabic among normal and dyslexic native Arabic readers, and discusses the role of Arabic morphology in reading. The review included studies on Arabic as well as some studies on Hebrew, since…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Processes, Dyslexia, Morphemes
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Beita-Ell, Carolina; Boyle, Michael P. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The purposes of this study were to examine the self-efficacy of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in conducting multidimensional treatment with children who stutter (CWS) and to identify correlates of self-efficacy in treating speech-related, social, emotional, and cognitive domains of stuttering. Method: Three hundred…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Stuttering
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Perniss, Pamela; Vinson, David; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Cognitive Science, 2020
Successful face-to-face communication involves multiple channels, notably hand gestures in addition to speech for spoken language, and mouth patterns in addition to manual signs for sign language. In four experiments, we assess the extent to which comprehenders of British Sign Language (BSL) and English rely, respectively, on cues from the hands…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Speech Communication, English, Cues
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Aoyama, Ryosuke – TESL-EJ, 2020
In EFL contexts where students' chances to use English are limited to the classroom, minimizing their use of L1 to develop fluency in English is often encouraged in instruction. However, recent studies have reported that students' partial use of L1 in code-switching or translanguaging offers various pedagogical advantages. This research examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Xu, Jinfen; Zhang, Shanshan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
Automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems have been increasingly incorporated in L2 writing instruction. However, how the instructional use of AWE influences learners' writing has remained inconclusive partly due to variations in heterogeneous learners. Underpinned by a sociocultural theory, this classroom-based study was to understand how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Evaluation
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Tong, Yanli; Hasim, Zuwati; Abdul Halim, Huzaina – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Based on 312 samples, this study investigated the relationship between two dimensions of L2 vocabulary knowledge (VK) and listening comprehension (LC) by comparing written and oral vocabulary measurements and further examined the mediating effect of L2 vocabulary fluency (VF) by using Bootstrapping and Monte Carlo Method. Results show that: (1)…
Descriptors: Correlation, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Baker, Doris Luft; Alberto, Patricia Crespo; Macaya, Manuel Monzalve; García, Isabel; Gutiérrez-Ortega, Mónica – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
This meta-analysis aims to quantitatively synthesize the relation between the essential components of reading and reading comprehension in children whose first language is Spanish and who are learning to read in Spanish in a monolingual setting. Searches were conducted in WOS, Scopus, and ERIC from 2000 to 2021. We used a random effects model and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Phonological Awareness, Effect Size, Reading Comprehension
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Shivabasappa, Prarthana; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The study examines the extent of convergence of semantic category members in Spanish-English bilingual children with reference to adults using a semantic fluency task. Method: Thirty-seven children with developmental language disorder (DLD), matched pairwise with 37 typically developing (TD) children in the age range of 7;0-9;11…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Taxonomy
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Xiaoling Bai; Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
A perfect writing skill has been deemed instrumental to achieving competence in EFL, yet it is considered one of the most impressive learning domains. This study investigates the impact of human-AI collaborative feedback on the writing proficiency of EFL students. It examines key teaching domains, including the teaching environment, teacher…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Feedback (Response), Evaluators, Writing Skills
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Sun, Peijian Paul – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Informed by Segalowitz's (Cognitive bases of second language fluency, Routledge, 2010) L2 speech production model and MacIntyre et al.'s (Mod Lang J 82(4):545-562, 1998. https://doi-org.bibliotheek.ehb.be/10.1111/j.1540-4781.1998.tb05543.x) L2 willingness to communicate model, this study sought to understand the influence of cognitive, affective and sociocultural…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Language Fluency, Advanced Students, Chinese
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Li, Peng; Baills, Florence; Baqué, Lorraine; Prieto, Pilar – Second Language Research, 2023
This study explores the effects of embodied prosodic training on the production of non-native French front rounded vowels (i.e. /y, ø, oe/) and the overall pronunciation proficiency. Fifty-seven Catalan learners of French practiced pronunciation in one of two conditions: one group observed hand gestures embodying prosodic features of the sentences…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Speech Communication
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Singh, Amrendra Kumar; Halim, Huzaina Binti Abdul – Advanced Education, 2023
Corrective feedback is a crucial aspect of language teaching, which aims to help students improve language accuracy and fluency. While research on corrective feedback has been conducted worldwide, there is a dearth of empirical studies in the Indian context. Despite this gap, several studies suggest that corrective feedback practices in India are…
Descriptors: Barriers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Icht, Michal; Zukerman, Gil; Zigdon, Avi; Korn, Liat – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Cluttering is a fluency disorder characterized by an abnormally fast or irregular speech delivery rate along with disfluencies that are frequent but are not judged to be stuttering. Data on cluttering prevalence in the general population are scarce, as well as its association with psychological well-being indices, such as anxiety, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Language Impairments, Language Fluency, Speech Communication
Sara Anne Goring – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Semantic illusions are recognition errors that occur when an individual fails to notice that information contradicts their prior knowledge (Barton & Sanford, 1993; Erickson & Mattson, 1981). For example, after hearing the question, "If a plane crashes while flying over state lines, where should the survivors be buried?" many…
Descriptors: Semantics, Older Adults, Young Adults, Syntax
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