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, 2014 One of the biggest challenges confronting literacy education in Aotearoa New Zealand is accommodating the differences in English reading-related variables at school entry to produce equitable outcomes in later reading achievement (Wilkinson, Freebody, &
Te Arihi, Kylie
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Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether nonbinary speakers’ imitation of extended voice onset time (VOT) in word‐initial English /p, t, k/ is impacted by whether they believe they are listening to a nonbinary or binary model speaker. Forty‐five nonbinary American English speakers participated in an online VOT shadowing task, and the results find that ...
Jack Rechsteiner
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The role and efficacy of phonics instruction in the early literacy development of young Taiwanese EFL learners [PDF]
In recent years, phonics instruction in early literacy education has gained in popularity due to its critical role in facilitating phonological awareness and processing skills, said to enable the self-teaching mechanism inherent in an alphabetic ...
Kuo, Ling-Chun
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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Intergenerational longitudinal associations between parental reading/musical traits, infants' auditory processing, and later phonological awareness skills. [PDF]
Front Neurosci, 2023 Cantiani C +4 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht +1 more
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, 2015 The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of the knowledge that teachers in New Zealand primary school classrooms have in regard to phonemic awareness, their understanding of its importance as a factor in learning to read, and the methods
Clark, Linda Kaye
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ENGLISH PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS [PDF]
, 2017 This study aims to investigate first grade students’ awareness in English phonology and the factors influencing English phonological awareness. This study employs a mixed method that uses quantitative and qualitative data such as an assessment test, the ...
Putri, Nilasari Karinda
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia +3 more
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Learning to Read Strengthens Functional Connectivity Between the Ventral Occipitotemporal Cortex and the Superior Temporal Gyrus During an Auditory Phonological Awareness Task. [PDF]
J Speech Lang Hear Res, 2023 Wang J, Joanisse MF, Booth JR.
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