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Reading-related skills of kindergarteners from diverse linguistic backgrounds [PDF]
This study examined whether measures used to identify children at risk for reading failure are appropriate for children from different language backgrounds.
Chiappe, Penny +2 more
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Seeing the Speaker's Face Enhances Second Language Shadowing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence
Abstract This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated how facial cues influence second language (L2) shadowing among 42 Japanese learners of English. Participants completed four conditions that varied by task type (listening vs. shadowing) and visual input (face vs. mosaic).
Hyeonjeong Jeong +7 more
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God\u27s Design and Phonemic Awareness: What is phonemic awareness, what is phonics, and what does God have to do with it? [PDF]
Phonemic awareness is the foundation for a child’s literacy development. God’s initial interaction with man after creation, through the spoken word, bestows authority on oral language.
Jones, Jill A, McDonald, Connie
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Abstract Semantic fluency, the ability to retrieve words within a category, relies on lexical knowledge, semantic memory and executive control mechanisms. A richer, interconnected semantic memory and optimal executive control, as seen in creative individuals, enhance fluency through broad associative searches and quicker access to remote concepts ...
Almudena Fernández‐Fontecha
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Abstract Selective admissions at universities in the United Kingdom aim to ensure a baseline language competence, yet, despite persistent achievement disparities across linguistic backgrounds, systematic comparisons of linguistic skills underpinning academic success remain rare.
Justyna Mackiewicz, Danijela Trenkic
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The Contribution of Vocabulary, Grammar, and Phonological Awareness Across a Continuum of Narrative Ability Levels in Young Children. [PDF]
Khan KS +4 more
europepmc +1 more source
Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
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Several researchers have demonstrated that phonological awareness is an important factor in reading development and, it has also been confirmed that there is a positive relationship between reading and phonological awareness: evidences reveal that ...
Julieta Fumagalli +2 more
doaj
Both dissociations need to be considered: A response to Majerus et al.
Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Tobias Bormann
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