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Assessing the word recognition skills of german elementary students in silent reading - Psychometric properties of an item pool to generate curriculum-based measurements [PDF]
, 2020 Given the high proportion of struggling readers in school and the long-term negative consequences of underachievement for those affected, the question of prevention options arises.
Blumenthal, Yvonne, Voß, Stefan
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EFL Speaking Fluency through Authentic Oral Production
Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, 2021 This article describes the development of speaking fluency through authentic oral production in a six-week action research study of a public high school in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The methodology included a pre-test and a post-test that measured quantitative
Jairo Israel Lopez +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Problem finding (PF) and divergent thinking (DT) are considered to be indicators of creative potential. Previous studies, with different goals, suggest a positive correlation between PF and DT.
Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi +3 more
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Intergenerational transmission of language capital and economic outcomes [PDF]
, 2007 This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples immigrants, we can
Casey, T., Dustmann, C.
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Issues in Fluency and Fluency Disorders [PDF]
Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2019 Download the ASHA CE Questions PDF from the toolbar above. Use the questions to guide your Perspectives reading. When you're ready, purchase the activity from the ASHA Store and follow the instructions to take the exam in ASHA's Learning Center.
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Computer-Mediated L2 Collaborative Writing: L1 vs. L2 Interaction Effect on Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency (CAF) and Overall Quality of EFL Learners’ Texts [PDF]
Technology Assisted Language EducationDespite research studies regarding collaborative writing (CW), the effect of using L1 as the medium of collaboration has been underexplored in computer-mediated L2 CW.
Sharareh Kafian, Rajab Esfandiari
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Fluency Expresses Implicit Knowledge of Tonal Symmetry
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The purposes of the present study were twofold. First, we sought to establish whether tonal symmetry produces processing fluency. Second, we sought to explore whether symmetry and chunk strength express themselves differently in fluency, as an indication
Xiaoli eLing +4 more
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Narrative writing, reading and cognitive processes in middle childhood: what are the links? [PDF]
, 2012 This study investigated the relationship between measures of reading and writing, and explored whether cognitive measures known to be related to reading ability were also associated with writing performance in middle childhood.
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Retrieval from memory: Vulnerable or inviolable? [PDF]
, 2012 We show that retrieval from semantic memory is vulnerable even to the mere presence of speech. Irrelevant speech impairs semantic fluency—namely, lexical retrieval cued by a semantic category name—but only if it is meaningful (forward speech compared to ...
Hughes, Robert W. +2 more
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Logopaedica Lodziensia, 2023 This study analyzes the frequency of stuttering and typical disfluencies in Polish‑English bilingual adults who stutter during cross‑linguistic dialogue, monologue, and oral reading contexts. Additionally, the relationship between English proficiency and
Aleksandra Krawczyk +4 more
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