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The Persistence and Functional Impact of English Language Difficulties Experienced by Children Learning English as an Additional Language and Monolingual Peers. [PDF]

J Speech Lang Hear Res, 2017
Purpose This study explored whether a monolingual-normed English language battery could identify children with English as an additional language (EAL) who have persistent English language learning difficulties that affect functional academic attainment.
Whiteside KE, Norbury CF.
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Exploring the importance of vocabulary for English as an additional language learners’ reading comprehension

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This exploratory study represents an attempt to investigate the factors that may affect the reading comprehension abilities of English as an additional language (EAL) learners.
Gavin Brooks, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
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How much exposure to English is necessary for a bilingual toddler to perform like a monolingual peer in language tests? [PDF]

, 2014
Background Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Baker, Bedore, Bedore, Bello, Bialystok, Bialystok, Bishop, Bornstein, Caesar, Camilleri, Caselli, Caselli, Conboy, Conti-Ramsden, Crutchley, Dale, De Houwer, Dittmar, Doblhammer, Dunn, Dunn, Ellis Weismer, Fenson, Gathercole, Gathercole, Gathercole, Grimm, Gutiérrez-Clellan, Hamilton, Hasson, Hasson, Hemsley, Hoff, Junker, Kapalková, Katzner, Kern, Kovacs, Kruger, Lyytinen, López Ornat, Marchman, Meints, Milligan, Nelson, Nicholls, O'Toole, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Pancsofar, Paradis, Paradis, Parra, Paul, Pearson, Pearson, Peña, Place, Poulin-Dubois, Punj, Restrepo, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT), Scheele, Schwarz, Serrat, Squires, Steinley, Stow, Szagun, Tardif, Thordardottir, Thordardottir, Ward, Wiig, Williams, Zimmerman, Zink   +76 more
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Assessing Students’ Multimodal Texts in the Subject of English: Synthesising Peers’ and Teachers’ Recognition of Semiotic Work

Designs for Learning, 2023
While learning activities and text production in language subjects typically include multiple forms of multimodal expression, assessment in the subjects continues to a great extent to depend on students’ written texts.
Sigrid Ørevik
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Multidisciplinary Breadth: The Many Facets of English as an Additional Language Teaching and Learning

BC TEAL Journal, 2021
This editorial celebrates the longest issue of the BC TEAL Journal published to date, with nine articles covering 141 pages and reflecting the multiple settings and contexts of the journal’s readership.
Scott Roy Douglas
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The why-what-when-who-how of using captioned videos as an instructional aid in EAL classrooms: Theoretical perspectives and classroom implications

Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Social Sciences, 2022
This paper seeks to address how captioned videos are used as an instructional aid in classrooms of English as an additional language (EAL). The paper employs a narrative literature review to synthesize prior studies and reach pedagogical conclusions for ...
Trinh Thai Van Phuc
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Social identity and language ideology: challenging hegemonic visions of English in Brazil

Gragoatá, 2017
This paper seeks to investigate the social identities connected to English in Brazil by connecting these to linguistic ideologies, and reflecting on how they may be challenged.
Joel Austin Windle
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Exploring Potential Factors Affecting Reading Comprehension in EAL Learners: A Preliminary Corpus-Based Analysis

Languages
This article presents a study examining the vocabulary knowledge of English as an additional language (EAL) learners in two international schools in Japan in relation to the vocabulary profiles of the textbooks they are required to use in the classrooms.
Gavin Brooks, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
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Gamification into the design of the e-3D online course

Frontiers in Education, 2023
Research in the fields of Education and Applied Linguistics points to the growth of studies on digital games and gamification in Brazil. On the other hand, studies that discuss digital teaching material do not provide guidelines on how to implement ...
Susana Cristina dos Reis, Anderson José Machado Linck, Max Flores Figueiredo, Diéssica Lopes Pfeifer   +3 more
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Koalas, Kiwis and Kangaroos: The Challenges of Creating an Online Australian Cultural Dictionary for Learners of English as an Additional Language

Lexikos, 2017
This article reports on an online cultural dictionary for learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL) in Australia. Potential users studying English for academic purposes in an Australian university pre-entry program informed each stage of the ...
Julia Miller, Deny A. Kwary, Ardian W. Setiawan   +2 more
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