Learning from verbal discourse in educational media: a review of the literature
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Linguistic Interdependence and the Educational Development of Bilingual Children
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that cognitively and academically beneficial bilingualism can be achieved only on the basis of adequately developed first language (L1) skills and two hypotheses are formulated and combined to arrive at this position.
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Out of the Woods: Emerging Traditions in the Teaching of Writing
TL;DR: The authors discuss the difficulty of negotiating our way in search of new approaches, focusing in turn on the writer and the writer's processes, on academic content, and on the reader's expectations.
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Listening in the Native and Second/Foreign Language: Toward an Integration of Research and Practice
TL;DR: The authors discusses the importance of listening in second language acquisition, factors that influence success or failure of comprehension of first or second language messages, and the role of reading in the L2 curriculum, posited models of NL and L2 listening comprehension, and proposed taxonomies of listening skills and pedagogical activities.
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The Role of Elaboration in the Comprehension and Retention of Prose: A Critical Review
TL;DR: A review of recent research done in the area of prose comprehension, broadly defined, can be found in this paper, where authors discuss factors that affect amount of recall, with representations of text structures, and with use of world knowledge to aid comprehension.
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Auding and reading: A developmental model.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an auding/reading model that accounts for the development of receptive oracy and literacy skills, and present a classification scheme for reading and auding skills which considers basic adaptive processes, languaging precursors and languaging processes.
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