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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.
Abbott, Alamargot, Babayiğit, Babayiğit, Berninger, Berninger, Berninger, Berninger, Bishop, Borkowski, Bourke, Calvin, Catts, Chiappe, Connelly, Cox, Cragg, Cunningham, Denckla, Denckla, Dockrell, Dockrell, Elliot, Frith, Gareth J. Williams, Georgiou, Goff, Graham, Harrison, Hayes, Jones, Juel, Kellogg, Kim, Kirby, Knudson, Knudson, Manis, Mata, McGeown, Medwell, Miller, Olive, Pajares, Rebecca F. Larkin, Rust, Savage, Smith-Lock, Snowling, Stainthorp, Stanovich, Walker, Weschler, Wolf, Ziegler   +54 more
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PREDICTING L2 FLUENCY FROM L1 FLUENCY BEHAVIOR [PDF]

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
AbstractThe article reports on the findings of a study investigating the relationship between first language (L1) and second language (L2) fluency behavior. Drawing on data collected from Turkish learners of English, the study also addresses the question of whether proficiency level mediates the relationship, if any.
Zeynep Duran-Karaoz, Parvaneh Tavakoli
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Curriculum Material Use in EFL Classrooms: Moderation and Mediation Effects of Teachers’ Beliefs and TPACK

Education Sciences
While many studies have acknowledged multifaceted roles of curriculum materials (textbooks) in EFL reading activities, textbooks alone are insufficient, as their effectiveness depends on how teachers use them. Teachers’ textbook usage is strongly related
Nurul Fitriyah Almunawaroh, János Steklács   +1 more
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Predicting Fluency With Language Proficiency, Working Memory, and Directionality in Simultaneous Interpreting

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Simultaneous interpreting (SI) is a complex bilingual verbal activity that poses great challenges for working memory (WM) and language proficiency. Fluency is one of the crucial indicators in evaluating SI quality, the violation of which is characterized
Yumeng Lin, Qianxi Lv, Junying Liang
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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., Jones, Dylan M., Marsh, John E.   +2 more
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The multidimensionality of second language oral fluency: Interfacing cognitive fluency and utterance fluency

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
AbstractThe current study examined the extent to which cognitive fluency (CF) contributes to utterance fluency (UF) at the level of constructs. A total of 128 Japanese-speaking learners of English completed four speaking tasks—argumentative task, picture narrative task, reading-to-speaking task, and reading-while-listening-to-speaking task—and a ...
Shungo Suzuki, Judit Kormos
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Ortho-semantic learning of novel words: an event-related potential study of grade 3 children

Frontiers in Developmental Psychology
IntroductionAs children become independent readers, they regularly encounter new words whose meanings they must infer from context, and whose spellings must be learned for future recognition.
Alena Galilee, Lisa J. Beck, Clara J. Lownie, Jennika Veinot, Catherine Mimeau, Tammy Dempster, Laura M. Elliott, S. Hélène Deacon, Aaron J. Newman   +8 more
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Processing Fluency and Decision-Making: The Role of Language Structure

Psychology of Language and Communication, 2015
This paper models conventionalisation of language structure as constitutive of processing fluency. I postulate that the difference in conventionalisation of linguistic forms used for communication significantly influences our reasoning about ...
Deckert Mikołaj
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The Effects of a Single Night of Sleep Deprivation on Fluency and Prefrontal Cortex Function during Divergent Thinking

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
The dorsal and ventral aspects of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are the two regions most consistently recruited in divergent thinking tasks. Given that frontal tasks have been shown to be vulnerable to sleep loss, we explored the impact of a single night ...
Oshin eVartanian, Oshin eVartanian, Fethi eBouak, J. Lynn eCaldwell, Bob eCheung, Gerald eCupchik, Marie-Eve eJobidon, Quan eLam, Ann eNakashima, Michel ePaul, Henry ePeng, Paul J. Silvia, Ingrid eSmith   +12 more
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Repeats in advanced spoken English of learners with Czech as L1

Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2017
The article reports on the findings of an empirical study of the use of repeats – as one of the markers of disfluency – in advanced learner English and contributes to the study of L2 fluency.
Tomáš Gráf
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