Assessing children’s language is fundamental for changing their developmental outcome as it gives a chance for a quick and early intervention with a suitable planning and monitoring program. Since there is no universal Arabic language screening tool that can be used for the asse…
In the period between sole use of single words and majority use of multiword utterances children use several facilitating factors to reach the eventual goal of majority use of multiword utterances. They use utterance lengthening techniques that are not yet mature multiword utter…
This thesis investigated the relationship between shyness and the language development of a sample of preschool children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The sample consisted of 108 preschool children enrolled in eight preschool centres in Riyadh City. The method was a comparativ…
The population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States has been growing at an increasingly rapid rate (U. S. Census Bureau, 2010), and nowhere is this growth more evident than in U.S. public schools. As of school year 2010-11, nearly 25% of all students in the C…
"The book explores two fundamental aspects of the human mind and their relation to one another. The first is the way that information is put to use in the mind. When we are doing a mental arithmetic problem, for example, how do we bring the relevant bits of information to mind a…
"The book explores two fundamental aspects of the human mind and their relation to one another. The first is the way that information is put to use in the mind. When we are doing a mental arithmetic problem, for example, how do we bring the relevant bits of information to mind a…
"The book explores two fundamental aspects of the human mind and their relation to one another. The first is the way that information is put to use in the mind. When we are doing a mental arithmetic problem, for example, how do we bring the relevant bits of information to mind a…
Language Development From Theory to Practice provides a survey of key topics in language development, including research methods, theoretical perspectives, and major language milestones from birth to adolescence and beyond, and language diversity and language disorders. Each cha…
In this book, leading experts in different disciplines are asked to look at common central topics in the domain of word knowledge and usage from complementary standpoints, and discuss what can be gained from integrating different perspectives into converging approaches.
This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting. Presenting a study on the performance of Bachelor of Engineering students from various parts of the county, it analyzes the subjects language skills on the basis of selected sociolinguistic variables and examines t…