scholarly journals Oral Language Intervention in Norwegian Schools Serving Young Language‐Minority Learners: A Randomized Trial

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-552
Author(s):  
Mia C. Heller ◽  
Arne Lervåg ◽  
Vibeke Grøver
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Language Minority ◽  
Language Intervention ◽  
Language Minority Learners

scholarly journals Oral sentence generation training to improve fifth and 10th graders’ writing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Arfé ◽  
Federica Festa ◽  
Lucia Ronconi ◽  
Gaia Spicciarelli
Keyword(s):  
Oral Language ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Fifth Graders ◽  
Language Intervention ◽  
Sentence Generation ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Tenth Graders ◽  
Text Quality ◽  
10Th Grade ◽  
Cluster Randomized

AbstractText generation—the mental translation of ideas into language at word, sentence, and discourse levels—involves oral language abilities. However, oral language skills are rarely a target of writing interventions. We ran an intervention to improve fifth and 10th graders’ written production through the development of oral sentence generation (grammatical and syntactic) skills. One hundred and fifteen students—68 fifth graders (four classrooms) and 47 tenth graders (four classrooms)—participated in a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trial. Two fifth-grade classrooms (n = 35) and two 10th-grade classrooms (n = 20) received nine 90-min sessions (3 weeks, three sessions a week) of oral language intervention immediately after the pretest (experimental groups); the two other fifth- (n = 33) and 10th-grade classrooms (n = 27) received business-as-usual writing instruction and received a delayed oral language intervention after the posttest (waiting list group). The intervention consisted of team-based games to improve oral sentence generation and sentence reformulation skills. We assessed written sentence generation, written sentence reformulation, written text quality (macrostructure and language), and text writing fluency before (pretest) and after (posttest) the intervention and 5 weeks after the intervention (follow-up). The results showed that training on oral sentence generation skills can lead to significant gains in both sentence generation and sentence reformulation skills and text macrostructural quality. Improvement at the sentence level was, however, significant only for the younger writers (fifth graders).

Roles of morphological awareness in the reading comprehension of Spanish-speaking language minority learners: Exploring partial mediation by vocabulary and reading fluency

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL J. KIEFFER ◽  
GINA BIANCAROSA ◽  
JEANNETTE MANCILLA-MARTINEZ
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Language Minority ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Reading Vocabulary ◽  
Language Minority Learners ◽  
Vocabulary Word

ABSTRACTThis study investigated the direct and indirect roles of morphological awareness reading comprehension for Spanish-speaking language minority learners reading in English. Multivariate path analysis was used to investigate the unique contribution of derivational morphological awareness to reading comprehension as well as its indirect contributions via three hypothesized mediators for students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade (N = 101). Results indicated a significant unique contribution of morphological awareness, controlling for phonemic decoding, listening comprehension, reading vocabulary, word reading fluency, and passage reading fluency. Results further indicated significant indirect contributions of morphological awareness via reading vocabulary and passage fluency, but not via word reading fluency. Findings suggest that morphological awareness may play multiple important roles in second-language reading comprehension.

Language-Minority Learners in Special Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer F. Samson ◽  
Nonie K. Lesaux
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Language Minority ◽  
Language Minority Learners
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