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Identifying the Phonological Errors of Second-Modality, Second-Language (M2-L2) Novice Signers Through Video-Based Mock Tests
This study investigates how video-based mock tests can reveal the types of phonological errors that novice British Sign Language (BSL) learners make...
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Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Not Necessarily, for the Phonological Awareness of Young Children
Phonological awareness is taught from preschool onwards because of its impact on later reading skills. Numerous assessments and training sessions are...
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Too Little Morphology Can Kill You: The Interplay Between Low-Frequency Morpho-Orthographic Rules and High-Frequency Verb Homophones in Spelling Errors
Many orthographies represent the morphological structure of words, i.e., keep the spelling of a morpheme constant despite variability in...
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From Hand to Eye: a Meta-Analysis of the Benefit from Handwriting Training in Visual Graph Recognition
Handwriting (HW) training seems to boost recognition of visual graphs and learning to read more than other learning experiences. However, effects...
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Local Language Testing Practice across Contexts
Local language testing, though the most common form of language assessment practice, has not been formally recognize until very recently. In this...
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Boundary Crossing from the Start: 55 Years of Second Language Grammatical Gender Research in Review
In this chapter, I explore how the study of grammatical gender has been a prime example of the impact that boundary crossing can have on the...
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How Brain-Based Research Can Rewire Education for Bi/Multilingual Children with Special Educational Needs in Hong Kong, India, and the Philippines
Recent brain-based research has made significant contributions to our understanding of the strengths and challenges of children with special...
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How Brain-Based Research Can Rewire Education for Bi/Multilingual Children with Special Educational Needs in Hong Kong, India, and the Philippines
Recent brain-based research has made significant contributions to our understanding of the strengths and challenges of children with special...
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The Distibution of Arabic Verbal Patterns in Text Production: Between Varieties and Modalities
Arabic is a typical case of diglossia, in which different varieties of the same language are used within the same speech community for different...
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Children with Hearing Impairment in a Diglossic Context – The Case of Palestinian-Arabic Speaking Children
Hearing children acquire Spoken Arabic through informal and indirect learning as their mother tongue and Standard Arabic in a more direct and formal...
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A Rasch-based validation of the Vietnamese version of the Listening Vocabulary Levels Test
The Listening Vocabulary Levels Test (LVLT) created by McLean et al. Language Teaching Research 19:741-760, 2015 filled an important gap in the field...
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Counselling, Treating, and Hel** Gifted Children with Dyslexia and Other Specific Learning Difficulties—The 3D Learners
Despite centuries of scientific research, it is still extremely difficult to identify and understand the causes, consequences, and other...
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Production and Perception of L3 French Prosody: Approaching German-Turkish Heritage Bilingualism
We address the question of whether German-Turkish learners of French are advantaged over same-aged German monolinguals due to prosodic similarities...
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Exploring the relationships between various dimensions of receptive vocabulary knowledge and L2 listening and reading comprehension
The article presents an empirical study that investigates the single- and cross-modality relationships between different dimensions of receptive...
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Embodied Learning (and Teaching)
Traditional Western philosophyWestern philosophy separates mind and bodyBody. The mind, housed in the brainBrain, is serviced by the body, which...
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Multilingual Children with Special Needs in Early Education
Today, more than half of the world’s children are raised multilingual, which poses diagnostic and interventional dilemmas to providers for children...
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Assessing the content typicality and construct of Persian language proficiency test (PLPT) for non-Persian speakers: a corpus-informed study
Drawing on a growing body of research on the interface between corpus linguistics and second/foreign language testing and assessment, we adopted Peykare...
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Assessing Diglossic Knowledge and Awareness in Language and Literacy: Pilot Results from the Syria Holistic Assessment for Learning (SHAL)
This chapter examines interrelationships between children’s explicit knowledge and awareness of diglossia (EKAD) and educational attainment data in...
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ICT Virtual Multimedia Learning Tools/Environments: Role and Impact on ESL Learners’ Development of Speech Accuracy—YouTube as an Example
The[aut] Alobaid, Azzam present study proposes using YouTube as a widely used multimedia learning tool to provide and enhance a virtual multimedia...
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Precocious readers: a cognitive or a linguistic advantage?
We investigated the role of linguistic and cognitive processes in reading precocity from kindergarten to grade 2. A sample of 33 precocious readers...
