Mixed Receptive-Expressive Language Disorder (MRELD)is a communication disorder where a child has difficulty both understanding (receptive language) and using (expressive language) spoken language. This means that the child struggles with both comprehending what others are saying and effectively expressing...
Language systems Language does not refer merely to our speech but tocomplex cognitive processesthrough which meaning and information are conveyed –“the ability to communicate through common symbols”.5 Knowing how thebrain’s language systemsare impacted in aphasia can help us anticipate these patients...
In this way, the strength of knowledge that LexCH measures is supposed to be stronger than that of other LexTALE tests, and the test format is more similar to meaning-recall rather than to form-recognition. The test results should hence arguably be a better predictor of language proficiency, ...
A fundamental aspect of language processing is inferring others' minds from subtle variations in speech. The same word or sentence can often convey different meanings depending on its tempo, timing, and intonation鈥揻eatures often referred to as prosody. Although autistic children and adults are ...
In language teaching,receptive skillsare those skills where meaning is extracted from spoken or written discourse. These skills arelisteningandreading, respectively. Productive skills The productive skills, on the other hand, refer to the skills where the students are invited to produce language in wr...
ENGLISH languageCLASSROOMSThe study investigated how well Swedish adolescents recognize the meaning of derived words in English and whether this knowledge is determined by learner proficiency, word frequency, or affix type. Participants were 88 school students in two proficiency groups: 39 advanced 12 ...
Responses were scored dichotomously, meaning that they were either correct or incorrect. This test comprises 192 target words in 12-item sets of increasing difficulty. For the starting and ending items, we followed the ceiling and basal set rules to ensure that the examinee only receives sets ...