This longitudinal secondary analysis examined which early language and speech abilities are associated with school-aged reading skills, and whether these associations are mediated by cognitive ability. We analyzed vocabulary, syntax, speech sound maturity, and cognition in a sample of healthy children at age 3 years (N = 241) in relation to single word reading (decoding), comprehension, and ora...

1. Cluttering is a fluency disorder characterized by a rate that is perceived to be abnormally rapid, irregular, or both for the speaker, and... a. This rate problem causes one or more of the following: b. An excessive number of disfluencies c. The frequent placement of pauses and odd prosodic patterns d. Inappropriate/excessive degree of coarticulation, especially in multisyllabic words e. (St...

While letter-naming ability is a well-known preschool predictor of the later acquisition literacy, little known about an appropriate benchmark (i.e., how many letter names children must know at given age) and it may vary among different writing systems. The present study aimed to establish in Japanese Hiragana for pre-elementary (age 5 6 years) examined whether this predicts risk or success rea...

This study investigates the combined effects of task-based careful online planning condition and the storyline structure of a task on L2 oral performance (complexity, accuracy, and fluency). 60 intermediate EFL learners were randomly assigned to four groups (n = 15). Participants were asked to perform two tasks with different degrees of storyline structure (structured and unstructured) under tw...

In this one-year longitudinal study, we examined the central component processes of reading fluency, spelling accuracy, reading comprehension, and narrative text writing skills of 103 Turkish Cypriot children. Two cohorts of children from second and fourth grades were followed into third and fifth grades, respectively. The testing battery included the measures of phonological awareness, rapid a...

This article aims at exploring Bangladeshi EFL students’ use of self-conversation recordings and their effectiveness in improving oral fluency. It also explores using Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) to enhance students' speaking performance. The study followed a quasi-experimental research design check the improvement student's fluency accuracy. sample has been selected purposively. was 50 ...

The rise of artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum along the Thai-Cambodian border is an urgent public health threat. We conducted an employer-based survey of migrant workers in two provinces in Thailand along the Thai-Cambodian border to explore socio-economic conditions, bednet ownership, and parasite prevalence among migrant workers. Five thousand three hundred seventy-one migrant worke...

Renzulli Learning is an on-line educational profile and educational learning system designed to match student interests, learning styles, and expression styles with a vast array of educational activities and resources designed to enrich and engage students’ learning process. In this experimental study, quantitative procedures were used to investigate the use of Renzulli Learning on oral reading...

This study investigates the combined effects of task-based careful online planning condition and the storyline structure of a task on L2 oral performance (complexity, accuracy, and fluency). 60 intermediate EFL learners were randomly assigned to four groups (n = 15). Participants were asked to perform two tasks with different degrees of storyline structure (structured and unstructured) under tw...