Bonnie Brinton, PhD and Martin Fujiki, PhD, Communication Disorders Introduction: We were extremely grateful to receive a 2016-2018 Mentored Environment Grant. Our project was entitled Enhancing Social, Emotional, and Language Learning in Children with Language Impairment. The purpose of this project was to employ a multiple baseline, single subject design to investigate the efficacy of […]
Search Results for: language
The Predictive Validity of a Kindergarten Dynamic Assessment of Language
Veronica White and Douglas Petersen, Communication Disorders Introduction Kindergarten students are often administered screening instruments designed to identify weaknesses in emergent literacy skills. Unfortunately, these screeners, which only measure what a student currently knows, cannot validly differentiate between students who have low scores because of limited exposure, language/dialectal differences, or a disability. A more valid […]
Russian for Professional Purposes: An Experiential and Instruction Based Approach to Advanced Competency Within the Russian Language
David Joseph, Dr. Tony Brown and Dr. Yekaterina Jordan, Department of German and Russian Introduction Originally, this project aimed to increase Russian language fluency in the legal domain by developing an advanced-level course titled “Russian for Professional Purposes.” As progress in course development proceeded, it was moved into conceptualizing the project as a whole and then […]
Eye Movements in Second Language Reading of Russian
Hunter Hill, Steven G. Luke, PhD and Jennifer M. Brown PhD, German and Russian Introduction When we read, our eye movements are influenced by our knowledge of the language we are reading. When reading in a second language in which we have less experience, it is likely that our under-developed language skills will have less […]
Italian politicians and racialized language on social media: The norming effect on racial attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants
Janessa Garrow, Marie Orton, French & Italian Introduction Between 2002 and 2011, over 3.5 million non-citizens immigrated to Italy (International and internal migration, 2013). While there has been a decreasing trend in the number of incoming immigrants since the peak in 2007 (over 500,000), there were still over 119,000 migrants who came to Italy in […]
Emotional Inferencing in Children with Language Impairment
Allison Barney and Bonnie Brinton, Communication Disorders Introduction Children with language impairment (LI) present with “a significant impairment in the acquisition and use of language across modalities” (ASHA, 1993). LI is a prevalent disorder affecting 7% of kindergarteners (Tomblin et al, 1997). LI limits a child’s ability to acquire language, to establish relationships with others, […]
Enhancing Social, Emotional, and Language Learning in Children with Language Impairment.
Bonnie Brinton, PhD and Martin Fujiki, PhD Communication Disorders Introduction: We were extremely grateful to receive a 2016 Mentored Environment Grant. Our project was entitled Enhancing Social, Emotional, and Language Learning in Children with Language Impairment. The purpose of this project was to employ a multiple baseline, single subject design to investigate the efficacy of […]
English as a Second Language Speakers’ Ability to Replicate Native Speaker Speech Forms When Engaged in Imitative Interaction
Ariana Avila and Dr. Mark Tanner, Linguistics and English Language Department Introduction: The purpose of this study was to gather acoustic data aimed at empirically assessing the degree to which non-native English speakers can approximate the linguistic features of native speech when engaged in imitative interaction. The focus of my study was to investigate the […]
Using Technology to Enhance Second Language Literacy
Pace, Emily Adriana Using Technology to Enhance Second Language Literacy (Subtitle- Enablling Students of Arabic to Find..) Faculty Mentor: R. Kirk Belnap, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages Introduction This project is the beginning of a revision of a previous research project of the BYU Arabic department known as RAFT (Readable Article Finding Tool). […]
Will we let a language die?
Heath, Joseph Will We Let a Language Die? Analyzing Efforts by the European Union to Protect Minority Languages Joseph Heath josephaheath@ gmail.com jheath92 William Eggington, Department of Linguistics and English Language Introduction My project examined efforts to maintain the Rusyn language (also known as Ruthenian ). Rusyn is spoken by 50,000 people living primarily in […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 84
- Next Page »