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English Review: Journal of English Education, 2020 Language exposure and learning motivation are two of the most essential aspects in learning any language. In English language acquisition, the development of these two components facilitates the development of other language skills, such as reading ...
Galiansa Galiansa +2 more
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Languages, 2021 The current study aimed at investigating the performance of bilingual children with English as an additional language (EAL) on language and literacy measures compared to monolinguals across the first four years of primary school in the U.K.
Theodora Papastefanou +2 more
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Investigating Thematic Roles through Implicit Learning: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The syntactic structure of a sentence is usually a strong predictor of its meaning: Each argument noun phrase (i.e., Subject and Object) should map onto exactly one thematic role (i.e., Agent and Patient, respectively).
Eva Wittenberg +2 more
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Reading comprehension in developmental disorders of language and communication [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Deficits in reading airment (SLI), Down syndrome (DS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Methods: In this review (based on a search of the ISI Web of Knowledge database to 2011), the Simple View of Reading is used as a framework for ...
Ricketts, Jessie, Jessie Ricketts
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Pragmatic aspects of communication and language comprehension in groups of children differentiated by teacher ratings of inattention and hyperactivity. [PDF]
, 2007 Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience pragmatic language deficits, but it is not known whether these difficulties are primarily associated with high levels of inattention, hyperactivity, or both.
Cain, Kate, Bignell, Simon
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Reading Comprehension in French L2/L3 Learners: Does Syntactic Awareness Matter?
Languages, 2022 This study examines the contributions of syntactic awareness to reading comprehension, both within and across languages, in third-grade children learning French as a second (L2) or third language (L3).
Juwairia Sohail +3 more
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Literacy and comprehension in school-aged children: Studies on autism and other developmental disabilities [PDF]
, 2008 The present thesis consists of five studies and addresses literacy and comprehension skills in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD, including Asperger’s disorder) and, to a lesser extent, attention disorders (eg. Attention Deficits Hyperactivity
Åsberg, Jakob +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We examined the relative contribution of auditory processing abilities (tone perception and speech perception in noise) after controlling for short-term memory capacity and vocabulary, to narrative language comprehension in children with developmental ...
Beula M. Magimairaj +5 more
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Visually Situated Language Comprehension
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2016 Abstract Over the past two decades, ‘visually situated’ language comprehension (the interplay between language comprehension, attention, and non‐linguistic visual context) has emerged as an increasingly active area of research. One important result in this area is that both linguistic and world knowledge, as well as visual cues, can ...
Pia Knoeferle, Ernesto Guerra
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Crossmodal Language Comprehension—Psycholinguistic Insights and Computational Approaches
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2020 Crossmodal interaction in situated language comprehension is important for effective and efficient communication. The relationship between linguistic and visual stimuli provides mutual benefit: While vision contributes, for instance, information to ...
Özge Alaçam +3 more
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