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Do children with developmental dyslexia have syntactic awareness problems once phonological processing and memory are controlled?

Frontiers in Language Sciences
IntroductionSyntactic awareness is the ability to monitor and manipulate word order within sentences. It is unclear whether children with dyslexia have syntactic awareness problems, as there are mixed results in the literature.
Erin K. Robertson, Catherine Mimeau, S. Hélène Deacon   +2 more
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Training in phonological awareness generalizes to phonological working memory: A preliminary investigation.

The Journal of Speech and Language Pathology – Applied Behavior Analysis, 2006
Abstract Early reading achievement relies on phonological awareness (PA) and phonological working memory (WM). Children with language impairment (LI) have problems with both. Three studies were conducted to determine whether treating PA would also improve phonological WM in preschoolers with LI.
Van Kleeck, A, Gillam, Ronald B., Hoffman, L M   +2 more
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Pre‐Task Explicit Instruction, Input Modality, and Working Memory in L2 Oral Self‐Repair

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the central role of tasks in language education and ensuing research documenting how task‐related variables might affect language performance and learning, it remains unclear whether pre‐task explicit instruction, input modality, and working memory (WM) influence how learners monitor and repair grammatical structures in real‐time ...
Reza Yadollahpour, Mostafa Pourhaji, Michael Sadeghi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring English Language Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge and Usage When Speaking

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vocabulary forms a fundamental component of speaking ability, as it enables speakers to convey meaning accurately, fluently, and effectively. Although the relationship between vocabulary and speaking has been investigated to some extent, gaps remain in understanding the link between learners’ vocabulary knowledge and their speaking proficiency,
Junyan Guo, Martin East
wiley   +1 more source

Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning of a new, additional foreign language.
Kiyono Fujinaga‐Gordon, Mandy Simons, Seth Wiener   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing phonological working memory in preschool children with and without stuttering

مجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2011
Background: One language-related area that has recently received more attention from researchers working in the field of stuttering is phonological working memory.
Ali Barikroo, Sayed Abolfazl Tohidast, Banafsheh Mansuri, Ghasem Yadegarfar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Working memory load elicits attentional bias to threat [PDF]

, 2014
Anxious individuals tend to show attentional bias to threats and dangers; this is usually in-terpreted as a specific bias in threat-processing. However, they also tend to show general working memory and cognitive control impairments. We hypothesised that
Booth, Robert, Sharma, Dinkar
core  

L2 Chinese Grammatical Acquisition and Processing: A Substantive and Methodological Review

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 92 empirical studies on Chinese as a second language (CSL) in grammatical processing and development, synthesizing their substantive foci and methodological characteristics. The results reveal consistent scholarly attention to cross‐linguistic topics, with less focus on features that are distinctively
Shaohua Fang, Yi Xu, Jiani He, Jia Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Disrupting Dominant Ideologies in Chilean Teacher Education Through Ideological Clarity

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study seeks to develop a more nuanced understanding of how English language teacher educators navigate the tensions between and across institutional expectations, the Chilean sociopolitical landscape, the increasing diversity and their pedagogical choices as they construct their professional identities.
Leonardo Veliz, Flor Toledo‐Sandoval
wiley   +1 more source

Annual Research Review: Associations of socioeconomic status with cognitive function, language ability, and academic achievement in youth: a systematic review of mechanisms and protective factors

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 417-439, April 2025.
Low socioeconomic status (SES) is negatively associated with children's cognitive and academic performance, leading to long‐term educational and economic disparities. In particular, SES is a powerful predictor of executive function (EF), language ability, and academic achievement.
Divyangana Rakesh, Paris Anne Lee, Amruta Gaikwad, Katie A. McLaughlin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source