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Glossing in Incidental and Intentional Learning of Foreign Language Vocabulary and Reading

, 1995
This study attempts to address how glossing affects learning vocabulary and reading comprehension in a foreign language. It compares a gloss condition with a no gloss condition, as well as a L1 gloss versus L2 gloss.
Ko, Myong Hui
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Posterior Disconnection Syndrome in Early‐Stage Adult‐Onset Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adult‐onset cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy is potentially treatable but often difficult to recognize before advanced cerebral involvement. Herein, we describe three men with early‐stage disease who initially presented with subtle visual complaints rather than subcortical dementia. Targeted neuropsychological testing revealed higher‐order visual
Kazuto Katsuse, Takashi Matsukawa, Yumiko Nakamura, Kazuo Kakinuma, Shoko Ota, Ryo Hara, Saki Nakashima, Kaoru Ito, Yutaro Nakamori, Toshiyuki Kakumoto, Masashi Hamada, Shigenori Kanno, Kyoko Suzuki, Tatsushi Toda   +13 more
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Speed in cognitive tasks as an indicator of second/foreign language reading and writing skills

Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2013
In a cross-sectional study 823 Finnish school children were tested to examine the relation between speed of performance in cognitive and linguistic tasks and second/foreign language reading and writing.
Sanna Olkkonen
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Psychometric assessment of individual differences in second language reading anxiety for identifying struggling students in classrooms. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Hamada A, Takaki S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Nationwide Survey of Association Between Fever and Epileptic Seizure in CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder Revealed Therapeutic Implications

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) is a rare, severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. There is a pressing need to develop effective and sustainable therapeutic strategies. We aimed to investigate the causal association between febrile episodes and epileptic seizures for therapeutic implications in CDD patients.
Siyi Wang, Jialin Du, Jinghui Liu, Dongmei Hu, Hongxin Wang, Xiaoxiao Man, Lehong Gao, Shimin Hu, Xianghong Meng, Hongyang Zhao, Minjing Hu, Yingxue Yang, Zhiqi Xiong, Liankun Ren   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Structure-Based Communication Tasks for Second Language Development [PDF]

, 1990
Task based language teaching has gained favor among both second language teachers and researchers over the last decade. Arguments for the value of a "focus on fonn" and attention to forms in input have also been made by several SLA researchers, thus ...
Bley-Vroman, Robert, Loschky, Lester
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Proficiency Effects and Compensation in Advanced Second-Language Reading

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2008
No abstract available.
Philip Shaw, Alan McMillion
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Subjective Cognitive Concerns and Cognitive Trajectories in Parkinson's Disease: Biomarker Impact

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the relationship of subjective cognitive concerns (SCC) with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD), neurodegeneration, and Parkinson's disease (PD) and domain‐specific cognitive trajectories among cognitively unimpaired persons with de novo PD. Method Cognitively unimpaired participants with SCC (n = 294) and without SCC (
Francesca V. Lopez, Fareshte Erani, Katherine J. Bangen, David G. Coughlin, Douglas Galasko, Kelsey R. Thomas   +5 more
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Generalized Dystonia With Cervical Predominance in a Patient With a De Novo TCF20 Variant

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT TCF20 has been implicated in developmental delay and intellectual disability, with dystonia reported less frequently. We describe a woman in her early twenties with childhood‐onset learning difficulties, progressive dysarthria, tremor, and generalized dystonia with marked cervical predominance, associated with a de novo TCF20 frameshift ...
Melisa Kilic, Petr Dusek, Ibrahim Kamaci, Bahar Gulmez, Gul Yalcin Cakmakli, Ersin Tan, Sibel Ugur Iseri, Zuhal Yapici   +7 more
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Use of the cloze procedure to measure readability and reading comprehension in the Samoan language [PDF]

, 1981
A series of cloze reading tests of varying deletion rates and a traditional multiple-choice reading test wer~ administered to a group of high school students in American Samoa in order to determine the efficacy of using the cloze procedure as a measure ...
Bowne, Gary L.
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