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Richard Sparks Leonore Ganschow Jane Pohlman Sue Skinner Marjorie Artzer 《Annals of dyslexia》1992,42(1):25-53
Research findings suggest that most students who have foreign language learning problems have language-based difficulties
and, in particular, phonological processing problems. Authors of the present study examined pre- and posttest scores on native
language and foreign language aptitude tests of three groups of at-risk high school students enrolled in special, self-contained
sections of first-year Spanish. Two groups were instructed using a multisensory structured language (MSL) approach. One of
the groups was taught in both English and Spanish (MSL/ES), the other only in Spanish (MSL/S). The third group (NO-MSL) was
instructed using more traditional second language teaching methodologies. Significant gains were made by the MSL-ES group
on measures of native language phonology, vocabulary, and verbal memory and on a test of foreign language aptitude; the MSL/S
group made significant gains on the test of foreign language aptitude. No significant gains on the native language or foreign
language aptitude measures were made by the NO-MSL group. Implications for foreign language classroom instruction of at-risk
students are discussed. 相似文献
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Richard L. Sparks Marjorie Artzer Jon Patton Leonore Ganschow Karen Miller Dorothy J. Hordubay Geri Walsh 《Annals of dyslexia》1998,48(1):239-270
In this study, the benefits of multisensory structured language (MSL) instruction in Spanish were examined. Participants were
students in high-school-level Spanish attending girls’ preparatory schools. Of the 55 participants, 39 qualified as at-risk
for foreign language learning difficulties and 16 were deemed not-at-risk. The at-risk students were assigned to one of three
conditions: (1) MSL—multisensory Spanish instruction in self-contained classrooms (n=14); (2) SC—traditional Spanish instruction provided in self-contained classrooms (n=11); and (3) NSC—traditional Spanish instruction in regular (not self-contained) Spanish classes (n=14). Not-at-risk students (n=16) received traditional Spanish instruction in regular classes similar to the instruction provided to the NSC group.
All three at-risk groups made significant gains over time on some native language skills regardless of teaching method. The
MSL group also made significant gains on a foreign language aptitude measure. The MSL group and the not-at-risk group made
greater gains than the two other at-risk groups on foreign language aptitude and native language measures of reading comprehension,
word recognition, and pseudoword reading.
Although most at-risk learners achieved an “expected” level of foreign language proficiency after two years of instruction,
significant group differences were found. On measures of oral and written foreign language proficiency, the MSL and not-at-risk
groups scored significantly higher than the at-risk groups instructed using traditional methods. After two years of Spanish
instruction, no differences in foreign language proficiency were found between the MSL group and the not-at-risk group. 相似文献
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Native language predictors of foreign language proficiency and foreign language aptitude 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Fifty-four students were tested at specific time intervals over 10 years to determine best native language (NL) predictors
of oral and written foreign language (FL) proficiency and FL aptitude. All participants completed two years of Spanish, French,
or German. Each was administered measures of NL literacy, oral language, and cognitive ability in elementary school. A measure
of FL aptitude was administered at the beginning of ninth grade and FL proficiency was evaluated at the end of the 10th grade.
Among the variables, NL literacy measures were the best predictors of FL proficiency, and NL achievement and general (verbal)
intelligence were strong predictors of FL aptitude. Results suggest that indices of NL literacy as early as first grade are
related to FL proficiency and FL aptitude nine and 10 years later. Findings provide strong support for connections between
L1 and L2 skills, and for speculation that “lower level” skills in phonological processing are important for written language
development and oral proficiency in a FL. 相似文献
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Identifying native language difficulties among foreign language learners in college: a "foreign" language learning disability? 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
L Ganschow R L Sparks J Javorsky J Pohlman A Bishop-Marbury 《Journal of learning disabilities》1991,24(9):530-541
The present study compared successful and unsuccessful college foreign language learners on measures of intelligence, foreign language aptitude, native oral and written language, and math. Unsuccessful students had received petitions to waive the foreign language requirement. No significant differences between groups were found on intelligence and reading comprehension. Significant differences were found on the Modern Language Aptitude Test, on tests of written and oral language in the syntactic and phonological domains, and on math calculation. Authors suggest that students with foreign language learning difficulties may have underlying native language problems manifested especially in the areas of syntax and phonology. Suggestions for diagnosing a foreign language disability are made. 相似文献
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Two studies examined students classified as having learning disabilities (LD) who had received course substitutions for the college foreign language (FL) requirement. In the first study, 42 students at one university were divided into groups and compared on measures of IQ, academic achievement, FL aptitude, college grade point average (GPA), and FL and English grades. Findings showed that most of the 42 students had been classified as LD in college after experiencing problems in FL courses. Comparisons based on students' performance on measures of FL aptitude, native language skill, and performance in FL courses showed few significant group differences. In the second study, the 42 students from the first study were compared with 86 students at another university who had also been classified as LD and received course substitutions for the college FL requirement. Comparisons on demographic information and measures of IQ, academic achievement, FL aptitude, college GPA, and FL GPA showed few significant differences between the two groups. Both studies suggest that students classified as LD at different universities exhibit similar demographic, cognitive, academic achievement, and FL aptitude profiles and that educators should not make the a priori assumption that students classified as LD require course substitutions for the FL requirement or experience problems with FL learning. 相似文献
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This study investigated the effects of a 12-week language-enriched phonological awareness instruction on 76 Hong Kong young children who were learning English as a second language. The children were assigned randomly to receive the instruction on phonological awareness skills embedded in vocabulary learning activities or comparison instruction which consisted of vocabulary learning and writing tasks but no direct instruction in phonological awareness skills. They were tested on receptive and expressive vocabulary, phonological awareness at the syllable, rhyme and phoneme levels, reading, and spelling in English before and after the program implementation. The results indicated that children who received the phonological awareness instruction performed significantly better than the comparison group on English word reading, spelling, phonological awareness at all levels and expressive vocabulary on the posttest when age, general intelligence and the pretest scores were controlled statistically. The findings suggest that phonological awareness instruction embedded in vocabulary learning activities might be beneficial to kindergarteners learning English as a second language. 相似文献
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This replication study examined whether 158 college students classified as learning disabled (LD) who were granted course substitutions for the foreign language (FL) requirement would display significant cognitive and academic achievement differences when grouped by levels of IQ-achievement and achievement-achievement discrepancy and by level of performance on an FL aptitude test (Modern Language Aptitude Test; MLAT), phonological/orthographic processing measures, and in FL courses. The results showed that there were few differences among groups with differing levels of IQ-achievement or achievement-achievement discrepancy (i.e., < 1.0 SD, 1.0-1.49 SD, and > 1.50 SD) on MLAT and American College Testing (ACT) scores, graduating grade point average (GPA), or college FL GPA. The results also showed that between groups who scored at or above versus below the 15th percentile (i.e., < 1.0 SD) on the MLAT, there were no differences on measures of graduating GPA, college FL GPA, native language skill, ACT score, and Verbal IQ. Demographic findings showed that 44% of these petition students met a minimum IQ-achievement discrepancy criterion (> or = 1.0 SD) for classification as LD. These findings suggest that many traditional assumptions about LD and FL learning are likely to be false. 相似文献
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Development of reading skills from K-3 in Spanish-speaking English language learners following three programs of instruction 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The development of English and Spanish reading and oral language skills from kindergarten to third grade was examined with
a sample of 502 Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) enrolled in three instructional programs. The students in
the transitional bilingual and dual-language programs had significantly higher scores than the students in the English immersion
program on the Spanish reading and oral language measures and significantly lower scores on the English reading comprehension
and oral language measures. Multiple-group path models showed that the predictors of third grade English and Spanish reading
comprehension did not differ across the three programs. Spanish phonological/decoding skill and oral language in first grade
mediated the association between Spanish phonological/decoding skill and oral language in kindergarten and third grade Spanish
reading comprehension. English phonological/decoding, Spanish phonological/decoding skill, and English oral language in first
grade mediated the link between Spanish phonological/decoding skill in kindergarten and third grade English reading comprehension. 相似文献
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Richard L. Sparks 《Annals of dyslexia》1995,45(1):187-214
In this paper, it is suggested that foreign language learning problems result from difficulties with native language learning
and hypothesized that difficulties with phonological processing may be the locus of foreign language learning difficulties
for some poor foreign language learners. Evidence is described that supports these positions. It is argued that conceptualizing
foreign language learning problems as alanguage problem allows researchers to more clearly specify deficits related to the learning of a foreign language. Research evidence
which shows that good and poor foreign language learners exhibit significantly different levels of native language skill and
phonological processing is summarized. Finally, potential challenges to my hypotheses as an explanation for foreign language
learning problems are reviewed. 相似文献
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As increasing numbers of colleges and universities require a foreign language for graduation in at least one of their degree programs, reports of students with difficulties in learning a second language are multiplying. Until recently, little research has been conducted to identify the nature of this problem. Recent attempts by the authors have focused upon subtle but ongoing language difficulties in these individuals as the source of their struggle to learn a foreign language. The present paper attempts to expand upon this concept by outlining a theoretical framework based upon a linguistic coding model that hypothesizes deficits in the processing of phonological, syntactic, and/or semantic information. Traditional psychoeducational assessment batteries of standardized intelligence and achievement tests generally are not sensitive to these linguistic coding deficits unless closely analyzed or, more often, used in conjunction with a more comprehensive language assessment battery. Students who have been waived from a foreign language requirement and their proposed type(s) of linguistic coding deficits are profiled. Tentative conclusions about the nature of these foreign language learning deficits are presented along with specific suggestions for tests to be used in psychoeducational evaluations. 相似文献
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Effectiveness of Spanish intervention for first-grade English language learners at risk for reading difficulties 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Vaughn S Linan-Thompson S Mathes PG Cirino PT Carlson CD Pollard-Durodola SD Cardenas-Hagan E Francis DJ 《Journal of learning disabilities》2006,39(1):56-73
The effectiveness of an explicit, systematic reading intervention for first-grade students whose home language was Spanish and who were at risk for reading difficulties was examined. Participants were 69 students in 20 classrooms in 7 schools from 3 districts who initially did not pass the screening in Spanish and were randomly assigned within schools to a treatment or comparison group; after 7 months, 64 students remained in the study. The intervention matched the language of instruction of their core reading program (Spanish). Treatment groups of 3 to 5 students met daily for 50 min and were provided systematic and explicit instruction in oral language and reading by trained bilingual intervention teachers. Comparison students received the school's standard intervention for struggling readers. Observations during core reading instruction provided information about the reading instruction and language use of the teachers. There were no differences between the treatment and comparison groups in either Spanish or English on any measures at pretest, but there were significant posttest differences in favor of the treatment group for the following outcomes in Spanish: Letter-Sound Identification (d = 0.72), Phonological Awareness composite (d = 0.73), Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery-Revised Oral Language composite (d = 0.35), Word Attack (d = 0.85), Passage Comprehension (d = 0.55), and two measures of reading fluency (d = 0.58-0.75). 相似文献
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Kwok K. Ho 《科学教学研究杂志》1982,19(9):761-767
This study investigated the relationship between physics achievement and language of instruction in a situation where instruction was in the second language of both students and teachers. One hundred and seventy-six grade ten physics students (first language was Chinese) were selected from four classes of two secondary schools in Hong Kong. For three months (with four lessons per week), two classes of students learned the content material (light and sound) in Chinese and two classes learned the material in English. Group differences were controlled by using individual aptitude scores as covariates in the analysis. There were no differences in achievement, students' motivation, and effort spent in physics in that controlled teaching period. This was probably because the Anglo-Chinese group was sufficiently proficient in English so they did not encounter additional difficulty in learning physics when compared with the Chinese group. 相似文献
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This study investigated the potential benefits of a blended learning approach on the reading skills of low socioeconomic status students in Grades 1 and 2. Treatment students received English language arts instruction that was both teacher-led and technology-based. Comparisons were made with control students who received the same English language arts instruction without the blended learning component. Results showed significantly greater pretest/posttest gains on a standardized reading assessment for the treatment students compared to the control students. The greatest discrepancy occurred in reading comprehension. A sub-analysis of low-performing English language learner students in the treatment group revealed the largest reading gains. At posttest, these students performed at the level of non-English language learner students in the control group. Results indicated a blended learning approach can be effective in enhancing the reading skills of low socioeconomic students. 相似文献
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Richard L. Sparks Leonore Ganschow Silvia Kenneweg Karen Miller 《Annals of dyslexia》1991,41(1):96-118
Recent research findings suggest that students who have difficulty learning a second language have weaknesses in oral and
written native-language skills which affect their performance in the foreign-language classroom. These weaknesses involve
understanding the phonological, syntactic, and semantic codes of language. Evidence suggests that dyslexic/learning-disabled
and other “at risk” students who struggle in the second language classroom exhibit particular difficulty with the phonological
and syntactic codes of the language. The Orton-Gillingham method, a multisensory, structured language approach which adheres
to the direct and explicit teaching of phonology, is presented as an alternative to the “natural” communication approaches
recently developed by foreign-language educators to teach a second language. A method for adapting this approach for teaching
Spanish is described. 相似文献
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Children with hyperlexia read words spontaneously before the age of five, have impaired comprehension on both listening and
reading tasks, and have word recognition skill above expectations based on cognitive and linguistic abilities. One student
with hyperlexia and another student with higher word recognition than comprehension skills who started to read words at a
very early age were followed over several years from the primary grades through high school when both were completing a second-year
Spanish course. The purpose of the present study was to examine the foreign language (FL) word recognition, spelling, reading
comprehension, writing, speaking, and listening skills of the two students and another high school student without hyperlexia.
Results showed that the student without hyperlexia achieved higher scores than the hyperlexic student and the student with
above average word recognition skills on most FL proficiency measures. The student with hyperlexia and the student with above
average word recognition skills achieved higher scores on the Spanish proficiency tasks that required the exclusive use of
phonological (pronunciation) and phonological/orthographic (word recognition, spelling) skills than on Spanish proficiency
tasks that required the use of listening comprehension and speaking and writing skills. The findings provide support for the
notion that word recognition and spelling in a FL may be modular processes and exist independently of general cognitive and
linguistic skills. Results also suggest that students may have stronger FL learning skills in one language component than
in other components of language, and that there may be a weak relationship between FL word recognition and oral proficiency
in the FL. 相似文献
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Wolbers KA 《Journal of deaf studies and deaf education》2008,13(2):257-277
This article reports the findings of balanced and interactive writing instruction used with 16 deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Although the instruction has been used previously, this was the first time it had been modified to suit the specific needs of deaf children and the first time it had been implemented with this subpopulation of students. The intervention took place in two elementary classrooms (N = 8) and one middle school classroom (N = 8) for a total of 21 days. A comparison of pre- and posttest scores on both writing and reading measures evidenced that students made significant gains with use of genre-specific traits, use of contextual language, editing/revising skills, and word identification. Students showed neither gains nor losses with conventions and total word count. In addition, a one-way multiple analysis of variance was used to detect any school-level effects. Elementary students made significantly greater gains with respect to conventions and word identification, and middle school students made significantly greater gains with editing and revising tasks. 相似文献
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This study documents the amount and quality of reading instruction provided to second‐ through fifth‐grade students with learning disabilities provided resource‐room services. Reading instruction provided by 10 special education resource‐room teachers was observed. Findings reveal that teachers and students were on task during instructional time that included phonological awareness, word study, comprehension, reading fluency, and vocabulary instruction of average to high average quality. Although class size was small overall, whole‐group instructional delivery was most common. Students made statistically significant gains in oral reading fluency but did not increase their standard scores on measures of comprehension or word reading. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 相似文献
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涂文娟 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2012,(3):335-335
学习者所处语言环境对外语学习效果有着重要的影响,中国学生虽然从小学到大学接近十年一直不间断学习外语,但收效并不明显,主要是学生缺乏很好的语言环境。本文主要从分析学生外语学习中的语言环境因素,并将这一原理应用于外语学习与教学当中,以提高学生外语学习效率。 相似文献
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This longitudinal study used latent growth curve modeling to investigate English literacy development in a sample of Spanish-speaking language minority students from third through eighth grade. This study also compared the sample’s literacy development to the entire population of California students using state standardized test data. Second, this study examined the contributions of a variety of bilingual measures of kindergarten letter knowledge, phonological awareness, word reading, and vocabulary to literacy development. Results demonstrated the present sample scored below average in literacy compared to the overall population of California students across years, but made slight gains to narrow the achievement gap. The greatest gains were obtained between fourth and fifth grade, but plateaued thereafter. Results concerning the second research questions showed that the third grade literacy intercept was predicted by kindergarten English letter knowledge, Spanish onset, Spanish word reading, and English vocabulary. However, English literacy development through eighth grade was only predicted by kindergarten English and Spanish vocabulary. Findings support arguments for educational efforts to target oral language instruction for these students in early elementary and instruction in both languages may provide the greatest benefit. Instructional implications are discussed. 相似文献