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Building school leaders’ instructional leadership capacity through virtual professional leadership learning communities

Frontiers in Education, 2023
IntroductionResearch is still emerging on how to develop school leaders’ instructional capacity. We implemented research-based practices through virtual professional leadership learning communities (VPLCs) for building school leaders’ instructional ...
Roya Pashmforoosh, Beverly J. Irby, Rafael Lara-Alecio, Fuhui Tong   +3 more
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Family-Based Whole-Exome Analysis of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Identifies Rare Variants in BUD13, a Component of the Retention and Splicing (RES) Complex

Brain Sciences, 2021
Specific language impairment (SLI) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) that displays high heritability estimates. Genetic studies have identified several loci, but the molecular basis of SLI remains unclear.
Erin M. Andres, Kathleen Kelsey Earnest, Cuncong Zhong, Mabel L. Rice, Muhammad Hashim Raza   +4 more
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The Effects of Cooperative, Collaborative, and Peer-Tutoring Strategies on English Learners’ Reading and Speaking Proficiencies in an English-Medium Context: A Research Synthesis

SAGE Open, 2021
We conducted a research synthesis to examine the impact of cooperative, collaborative, and peer-tutoring strategies on elementary English learners’ (EL) reading and oral proficiencies in studies from the United States.
Shifang Tang, Beverly J. Irby, Fuhui Tong, Rafael Lara-Alecio   +3 more
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Foreign-Language Phonetic Development Leads to First-Language Phonetic Drift: Plosive Consonants in Native Portuguese Speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language in Brazil

Languages, 2021
Fifty-six Portuguese speakers born and raised in Brazil produced Portuguese words beginning in one of four plosives, /p b k ɡ/. Twenty-eight of them were monolinguals (controls), and the rest were learners of English as a foreign language (EFL).
Denise M. Osborne, Miquel Simonet
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Emotional education as second language acquisition? [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper we argue that while emotional education intervention packages offer certain advantages, there are risks associated with their uncritical use.
MacAllister, James, Macleod, Gale, Pirrie, Anne   +2 more
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Intonation words in initial intentional communication of Mandarin-speaking children

Frontiers in Psychology
Intonation words play a very important role in early childhood language development and serve as a crucial entry point for studying children’s language acquisition.
Yunqiu Zhang, Jiantao Li, Yang Zhang
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Assessing Conceptual Understanding via Literacy-Infused, Inquiry-Based Science among Middle School English Learners and Economically-Challenged Students

Education Sciences, 2018
The overarching purpose of our study was to compare performances of treatment and control condition students who completed a literacy-infused, inquiry-based science intervention through sixth grade as measured by a big idea assessment tool which we refer
Rafael Lara-Alecio, Beverly J. Irby, Fuhui Tong, Cindy Guerrero, Janice Koch, Kara L. Sutton-Jones   +5 more
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Native language acquisition in children (First Language Acquisition) [PDF]

Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 1998
در روند اکتساب (acquisition) زبان مادری پیرامون بسیاری از زبانهای زنده دنیا تحقیقات وسیعی صورت گرفته است و در اغلب موارد نتایج بسیار مشابهی بدست آمده است که این امر به فرضیه جهانی بودن زبان (Language Universals) قوت بیشتری می بخشد.
mansour fahim
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Language Acquisition in Computers [PDF]

, 2012
This project explores the nature of language acquisition in computers, guided by techniques similar to those used in children. While existing natural language processing methods are limited in scope and understanding, our system aims to gain an ...
Belzner, Megan, Colin-Ellerin, Sean, Roman, Jorge H.   +2 more
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Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning [PDF]

, 2015
The goal of the present study was to characterize how neighborhood structure in sign language influences lexical sign acquisition in order to extend our understanding of how the lexicon influences lexical acquisition in both sign and spoken languages.
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