This study investigated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to support sixth-grade Spanish-speaking English as Additional Language (EAL) learners and their proficient classmates in acquiring pre-algebra knowledge skills associated academic vocabulary. The sample consisted 88 EAL 139 who had failed a fifth-grade final math exam. Treatment materials methods differed from those used cont...

Individuals with significant hearing loss often fail to attain competency in reading orthographic scripts which encode the sound properties of spoken language. Nevertheless, some profoundly deaf individuals do learn to read at age-appropriate levels. The question of what differentiates proficient deaf readers from less-proficient readers is poorly understood but topical, as efforts to develop a...

Recent research has revealed that the way phonology is constructed during word production differs across languages. Dutch and English native speakers are suggested to incrementally insert phonemes into a metrical frame, whereas Mandarin Chinese speakers use syllables and Japanese speakers use a unit called the mora (often a CV cluster such as "ka" or "ki"). The present study is concerned with t...

English teachers’ professional development responds to individual needs and societal discourses about teaching, learning, language use. This paper reports the findings of a case study that explored factors increased or limited active committed participation nine Colombian teachers in programs. Findings suggest are invested their if they may develop three imagined identities—as proficient speake...

L2 syntactic processing has been primarily investigated in the context of syntactic anomaly detection, but only sparsely with syntactic ambiguity. In the field of event-related potentials (ERPs) syntactic anomaly detection and syntactic ambiguity resolution is linked to the P600. The current ERP experiment examined L2 syntactic processing in highly proficient L1 Spanish-L2 English readers who h...

• Five distinct writing profiles were identified among 4th and 5th graders using theory-aligned measures. Profiles distinguished not only by level of performance on writing-related skills, but also knowledge about motivation. Profile membership predicted students’ three genre-based tasks. Grade, gender, disability status significantly influenced the probability being classified as a member glob...

Highly proficient German users of English as a second language, and native speakers of American English, listened to nonsense sequences and responded whenever they detected an embedded English word. The responses of both groups were equivalently facilitated by preceding context that both by English and by German phonotactic constraints forced a boundary at word onset (e.g., lecture was easier t...