the literature has already been a basic component in teaching foreign / second languages curriculum in comparing with other materials, therefore, this forces instructors to use literature for two purposes: first, teaching literature for literature and second , use of literature as a linguistic resource in order to improving language skill of learners, and this is important issue in applied ling...

abstract: autistic child may have a range of problems. failure of understand the meaning of words is the main characteristic of the autistic child. child `s ability to communicate may also be inappropriate. in briefly, the areas of language problems in these children, in other languages, are pragmatic and semantic. because of the difficulties of the working with autistic children, research rela...

Abstract The changing culture toward multimodality enforces acquiring visual literacy in every aspect of today’s modern life. One of the fields intermingled with using various modes in different variations is language teaching and learning, especially for and by young learners. Young language learners’ (5-12 years old) lack of world experience forces them to make the most use of non-verbal mode...

This study investigated cross-language and writing system relationship in biliteracy acquisition of children learning to read two different writing systems-Chinese and English. Forty-six Mandarin-speaking children were tested for their first language (Chinese-L1) and second language (English-L2) reading skills. Comparable experiments in Chinese and English were designed focusing on two reading ...

OBJECTIVES We examined the associations of breastfeeding initiation and duration with language and motor skill development in a nationally representative sample of US children aged 10 to 71 months. METHODS Using cross-sectional data on 22399 children from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health, we examined relationships between breastfeeding practices and children's language and motor ...

Listening is an important language skill to develop in terms of second language acquisition (SLA). In spite of its importance, second language (L2) learners often regard listening as the most difficult language skill to learn. This paper reviews a variety of recent research on listening comprehension to provide a basis for creating more effective listening instruction. It begins with a brief di...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether scores from the social function domain of the Paediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) would reflect differences among speech-language profile groups for children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS Thirty-four children with CP participated (mean age = 54.4 months). PEDI social function raw scores, developmentally stratified skill levels, and types of ...

Minority students’ English learning is a special and an indispensable component of English education system in China. This article studies students’ linguistic knowledge that live in Northwestern China – Gan Nan Autonomy State of Gan Su Province with majority population of Tibetan, mixed with Chinese and some Muslim. An analogous analysis is conducted between L2 students (Chinese students who l...

Divergent thinking (DT) is the ability to generate diverse solutions to a problem. This type of problem solving helps analysts to engage in alternate analysis, that is, the ability to consider multiple hypotheses (Haarmann, Platt, Donavos, Fox, & Bowles, 2007). DT is cognitive skill that can be trained (for a review see Haarmann, O'Rourke, & Ragusa, 2013), including in analysts (Haarmann, Georg...

A leading notion is that language skill acquisition declines between childhood and adulthood. While several lines of evidence indicate that declarative ("what", explicit) memory undergoes maturation, it is commonly assumed that procedural ("how-to", implicit) memory, in children, is well established. The language superiority of children has been ascribed to the childhood reliance on implicit le...