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Longitudinal Research: The ELLiC Project
This chapter starts with a description of the story behind the ELLiC project (English Language Learning in Catalonia): from the initial goal of...
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A longitudinal multi-modal dataset for dementia monitoring and diagnosis
Dementia affects cognitive functions of adults, including memory, language, and behaviour. Standard diagnostic biomarkers such as MRI are costly,...
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Reading and emotional-behavioural development in Finnish children: a longitudinal study of associations
Poor reading has been linked to negative outcomes on a wide range of emotional-behavioural dimensions in children. However, little is known about the...
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Instruction influences cross-language transfer of reading skills: evidence from a longitudinal randomized controlled trial
Longitudinal data from the Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS I) in South Africa ( N = 4538) were used to examine the role of instructional contexts in...
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A morphologically annotated longitudinal corpus of spoken Czech child–adult interactions
The paper presents a longitudinal corpus of transcribed spontaneous child–adult interactions in Czech. It consists of 99,388 tokens in 42,103...
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Is spelling related to written composition? A longitudinal study in French
This research aims at exploring in an irregular orthographic system like French, if spelling is related to written composition. French spelling is...
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Reciprocal relationships among reading and vocabulary over time: a longitudinal study from grade 1 to 5
Reading comprehension is contingent on both oral language comprehension and word-level reading ability, skills that are thought to be intrinsically...
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Longitudinal relations between literacy instruction and early reading achievement: findings from classroom observations in Grades 1–3
The current study examined the relation between the amount of literacy instruction and student reading achievement (word reading and reading...
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Speech Rhythm, Length of Residence and Language Experience: A Longitudinal Investigation
This study is an ongoing longitudinal investigation of second language (L2) speech rhythm in newly arrived immigrants. Seven Cantonese-first-language...
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Executive functions mediate fine motor skills’ contribution to literacy achievement: a longitudinal study of Arabic-speaking children
Fine motor skills (FMS) are among the most studied nonlinguistic factors influencing early literacy acquisition. Although developmental studies have...
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Role of transcription skills in young Chinese language learners’ sentence writing: a one year longitudinal study
The effects of transcription skills, comprising both spelling and handwriting fluency, on sentence writing among young Chinese as a second language...
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Look Who’s Talking: Inferring Speaker Attributes from Personal Longitudinal Dialog
We examine a large dialog corpus obtained from the conversation history of a single individual with 104 conversation partners. The corpus consists of...
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Precursors of reading text comprehension from paper and screen in first graders: a longitudinal study
Research on text comprehension in relation to the reading medium (paper or screen) has mainly involved undergraduate or high school students. To...
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Predictors of second language reading comprehension ability: a longitudinal study with learners from grade 9 to 11 in an English as a foreign language context
This longitudinal study investigated development of second language (L2) reading comprehension ability and predictive contributions of five L2...
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Cross-lagged relationships between vocabulary knowledge and morphological awareness among Chinese children: a longitudinal study from grade 1 to grade 3
Examining changes in the longitudinal relationship between vocabulary knowledge and three types of morphological awareness (MA), a cross-lagged...
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Implementing Longitudinal, Reflective Follow-Up Study Abroad Research: Following Former Pre-service Teachers into Professional Practice
Some pre-service teacher education programs include opportunities for students to participate in study abroad (SA) experiences, aimed to deepen and...
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A longitudinal intervention study of the effects of increasing amount of meaningful writing across grades 1 and 2
The current study examined the effectiveness of a writing is caught approach with young develo** writers in Norway. This method is based on the...
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Bidirectional longitudinal relationship between chinese children’s compounding awareness and idiom comprehension among from grades 3 to 5
Children’s idiom comprehension is an important aspect of language development. Idioms have both literal and figurative meanings, and there are often...
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The role of transcription and executive functions in writing: a longitudinal study in the transition from primary to intermediate Grades
Learning to write is one of the great challenges children face in primary grades, requiring both transcription skills (handwriting and spelling) and...
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Longitudinal predictors of word reading for children with Williams syndrome
We examined the cognitive, language, and instructional predictors of early word-reading ability in a sample of children with Williams syndrome...