Teaching Receptive Language Skills

Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language

Notions of reading and the teaching of reading have been in constant revision, especially in recent years. Indeed, computers have led the general public to revise their own needs, skills, and reading strategies in their mother tongues and in foreign languages. The question is no longer whether students want to read more than speak but whether they need reading more. In 1999, as a teacher I admi...

Adapting the Assessing British Sign Language Development: Receptive Skills Test into American sign language.

Signed languages continue to be a key element of deaf education programs that incorporate a bilingual approach to teaching and learning. In order to monitor the success of bilingual deaf education programs, and in particular to monitor the progress of children acquiring signed language, it is essential to develop an assessment tool of signed language skills. Although researchers have developed ...

Receptive Skills Test Evidence from the Wider Use of the BSL Receptive Skills Test

Creating a Space for Teaching Problem Solving Skills to Engineering Students through English Language Teaching

The complexity of teaching English in higher institutions by non-native speakers within a second/foreign language setting has created continuous discussions and research about teaching approaches and teaching practises, professional identities and challenges. In addition, there is a growing awareness that teaching English within discipline-specific contexts adds up to the existing complexity. T...

Assessing the Effectiveness of Holistic Multidimensional Treatment Model (Hojjati Model) on Receptive and Expressive Language Skills in Autistic Children

Background: Autism as part of the category called Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is caused by disorders in brain and nervous network and characterized by defect in social behavior, language and cognition. This study aimed to investigate receptive and expressive language performance and the severity of the disorder in 30 children with autism aged 2-8 years who speak in Persian language. Materi...