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Oral language of dyslexic adolescents

Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 1986
Evidence is presented which suggests that dyslexic adolescents need help in learning to express themselves orally. Suggestions are made as to possible ways of providing such help.
E.G. Stirling, T.R. Miles
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The Oral Approach to Language Learning

The Modern Language Journal, 1949
IT MUST have occurred to you, as it so often has occurred to me, that the aims, goals and methods of our language instruction are beset with contradiction from the very beginning. We purpose to teach a language and we teach reading, writing, translation, grammar with its varied rules and exceptions, syntax with its intricate snares and entanglements ...
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Oral Language Problems

2008
Research fi ndings regarding effi cacious speech and language intervention have been on the rise in recent years. Efforts have been made to link science to practice across many areas of intervention through the life span (Fey & Johnson, 1998; Hodson, 1998; Imbens-Bailey, 1998; Ingram, 1998; Wilcox, Hadley, & Bacon, 1998).
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The Role of Oral Language in the Evolution of Manual Language

1978
An examination of various French and English documents of the 18th and 19th century, especially reports, articles and books written by instructors of the deaf in Europe and the U.S. throws light on the conditions under which and the ways in which manual language evolved over the last two hundred years.
Robbin Battison, Harlan Lane
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Orality, Culture, And Language

2013
AbstractThis article explores the relationship between linguistic form and function in the varying cultural landscapes of the contemporary Arabic-speaking world, including spontaneous speech, the contemporary electronic media (television, radio, the Internet), cinema, theater, and traditional performed oral literature, which have been revived and ...
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Oral Strategies in the Language of Herodotus

2002
This chapter concentrates not on involuntary phenomena but on strategies used on purpose in oral language to make information more accessible. It discusses two traits of Herodotus' oral style: chunking and cohesion strategies in which chunking is illustrated in the juxtaposition of seven information units, and cohesion is illustrated by the tail/head ...
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Oral Society and Its Language

Diogenes, 1979
Spoken language was long thought to be mankind's earliest means of communication, with visual and gestural languages appearing only later. “ And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field;…” (Genesis II, 20).
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The Case for Oral Language in Schooling

The Elementary School Journal, 1984
quality of written language that is the main stumbling block. Children have little motivation to learn writing when we begin to teach it since they have only a vague idea of its usefulness. Research in Scotland by Reid (1966) and in England by Downing (1969) confirms that reading is a mysterious activity for beginners. They have only a vague expectancy
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The Relationship between Oral and Written Language

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 1998
It has been agreed for some time now that reading is primarily a language-based activity and that deficits in oral language will be reflected in deficits in reading ability. This paper explores the association between specific aspects of oral and written language as reflected in current literature and research.
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Oral Language, Culture and Class

1997
The dominant tradition in linguistics in the 1960s required rigorous concentration on structure abstracted from use. From that perspective, speech communities were homogeneous and ‘surface’ differences between speakers were irrelevant to the task of describing their language.
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