Search results for "Language ability"

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Characteristics of proficient speaking skills in foreign language : empirically-derived criteria for assessing speaking competence

1999

communicative language abilityRepertory Grid -techniqueempirically-derived criteriainner constructsspeaking proficiency
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Continuity From Prelinguistic Communication to Later Language Ability: A Follow-Up Study From Infancy to Early School Age.

2016

Purpose This longitudinal study examined the development of prelinguistic skills and the continuity of communication and language from the prelinguistic stage to school age. Method Prelinguistic communication of 427 Finnish children was followed repeatedly from 6 to 18 months of age ( n = 203–322 at ages 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 months), and its associations with language ability at ages 2;0 ( n = 104), 3;0 ( n = 112), 4;7 ( n = 253), 5;3 ( n = 102), and 7;9 ( n = 236) were examined using latent growth curve modeling. Results Prelinguistic development across several skills emerged as a rather stable intraindividual characteristic during the first 2 years of life. Continuity from prelinguistic …

MaleLinguistics and LanguageLongitudinal studyPredictor variablesLanguage Development050105 experimental psychologyLanguage and LinguisticsDevelopmental psychologyprelinguistic communicationSpeech and Hearingprelinguistic skillsHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesdevelopmentLanguage abilitySchool age childModels Statistical05 social sciencesFollow up studiesInfantLanguage acquisitionLanguage developmentChild PreschoolSchool environmentFemalePsychology050104 developmental & child psychologyFollow-Up StudiesJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
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Improvement of phonemic fluency following leftward prism adaptation.

2021

AbstractAnatomo functional studies of prism adaptation (PA) have been shown to modulate a brain frontal-parieto-temporal network, increasing activation of this network in the hemisphere ipsilateral to the side of prism deviation. This effect raises the hypothesis that left prism adaptation, modulating frontal areas of the left hemisphere, could modify subjects’ performance on linguistic tasks that map on those areas. To test this hypothesis, 51 healthy subjects participated in experiments in which leftward or rightward prism adaptation were applied before the execution of a phonemic fluency task, i.e., a task with strict left hemispheric lateralization onto frontal areas. Results showed tha…

Adultmedicine.medical_specialtygenetic structuresScienceAudiology050105 experimental psychologyLateralization of brain functionFunctional LateralityArticle03 medical and health sciencesFluency0302 clinical medicinemedicinePrism adaptation (PA) phonological neurologicalHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesAttentionFunctional studiesLanguageMultidisciplinaryLanguage abilitySettore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia E Psicologia FisiologicaQ05 social sciencesRHealthy subjectsBrainAdaptation PhysiologicalCognitive controlVisual PerceptionMedicineFemalePrismPsychologyPrism adaptation030217 neurology & neurosurgeryPsychomotor PerformanceScientific reports
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Going into the real world : language learners' views on how foreign language teaching prepares them to use language in authentic situations

2014

Englannin kieli nähdään oikeutetusti maailmankielenä, sillä se on vakiinnuttanut asemansa kansainvälisen kommunikaation välineenä. Kielenkäyttö ja kommunikatiivisuus ovat olleet teoriassa vieraiden kielten opetuksen tärkeimpiä tavoitteita jo pitkään. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoitus oli tarkastella kielenoppijoiden näkemyksiä siitä, miten englannin kielen opetus suomalaisessa peruskoulussa valmistaa oppijoita käyttämään kieltä autenttisissa kielenkäyttötilanteissa peruskoulun jälkeen. Tarkoituksena oli myös selvittää, mitkä opetuksen osa-alueet lisäävät oppijoiden kykyä käyttää kieltä. Lisäksi tutkimus pyrki selvittämään, millaisia kielenkäyttötilanteita oppijat ovat kokeneet. Tutkimuksen tavoit…

foreign language teaching and learninglanguage usekielenkäyttölanguage abilitykielitaitocommunicative competencekielen oppiminenenglannin kieliviestintätaidot
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