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Korean Elementary ESOL Students' English Language Anxiety and Defense Mechanism in the ESOL and Mainstream Classes: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications for TESOL
With the purpose to filling in the gap of the previous research, which paid little attention to the language anxiety of young children, this study has examined the dynamics of language anxiety with a main focus on young Korean elementary...
An Examination of the Integrative Relationship Among the Factors of Achievement Goal Theory and Self-Determination Theory: Addressing Existing Problems and Missing Links
For almost a decade researchers (Biddle, Soos, & Chatzisarantis, 1999; Wang & Biddle, 2007) have been advocating for studies that advance our understanding of the ways in which AGT and SDT are related in the exercise domain. Despite the...
National Research Council statistics indicate that 40% to 75% of preschoolers with early language impairment develop later reading difficulties (RD). Children exhibiting decreased language abilities need ample opportunities to acquire...
The evidence of a general achievement gap, and more specifically, a reading gap between African American students and White students is a well documented and alarming phenomenon (Chatterji, 2006; Darling-Hammond, 2004, 2007; Darling...
Predicting Third Grade Students' FCAT Reading Achievement and Oral Reading Fluency Using Student Demographic, Academic History, and Performance Indicators
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) is Florida's annual measure of student yearly academic progress with major implications for individual students and schools. The present study explored the inter-relationships among...
This exploratory study investigated the effects of principal implementation behaviors, specifically those influencing early reading programs, on student growth in oral reading fluency (ORF) of first grade students in Florida's Reading...
The Computerized Monitoring of Early Reading Skills (CMERS) is a computer adaptive test designed to measure reading skills (alphabetic knowledge, phonological awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency) in students in kindergarten...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teaching paraeducators to read to preschool children in a manner that facilitates the development of language and literacy skills on the quality of reading that occurs and on...
Research has documented the importance of early oral language and phonological sensitivity abilities in relation to later reading success. More research is needed to measure specific components of oral language abilities in order to...
This study examined the relationships between reading comprehension and breadth, depth, and fluency of word knowledge in third- and seventh-grade students. The Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test-Third Edition (EOWPVT) and the...
The social-emotional development of deaf children is an area, though widely discussed and studied, that has yet to provide an accurate understanding of the differences between deaf and hearing children (Edmundson, 2006; Martin & Bat...
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