oral language
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforalandlanguage
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oral
adjective
uk/ˈɔː.rəl/us/ˈɔːr.əl/
spoken and ...
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language
noun
uk/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, ...
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(Definition oforalandlanguagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What is not as clear, however, is how the specificorallanguageexperience affects the development of various reading processes.
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As such, reading is grafted ontoorallanguageskills.
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Their results showed thatorallanguageproficiency, by itself, was not a good predictor of word-reading ability.
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This set of results modifies the assertion thatorallanguageis foundational to early reading.
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The authors conclude that the ability to segmentorallanguagedevelops as a consequence of the process of learning to read and write alphabetically.
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The generalorallanguagescore was used in two ways.
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Cohesion as an index of social cognitive factors :orallanguageof the reading disabled.
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The use of adultorallanguageis necessary here because it is produced in similar conditions to that of children.
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Language spoken at home exerted only a minimal impact on literacy measures in either language but a strong effect onorallanguagemeasures.
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Other dimensions oforallanguageand their connection to print literacy are prominent in the collection.
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Apart from this, phonological consciousness is an important part of theorallanguageacquisition process and it seems to be developed parallel to language.
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As such,orallanguagephonemes are more accessible to children than standard phonemes, regardless of phoneme identity.
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Our data suggest that deaf children, whatever the quality of theirorallanguage, have developed orthographic sensitivity to frequency phenomena determining syllabic boundaries.
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A proposed framework for testing theorallanguageof second/foreign language learners.
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Thus, the authors' conclusion that 'orallanguageskills were largely unrelated at the level of individual subjects ' (p. 132) is not consistent with the data.
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Despite the well-established connection between phonological awareness skills and reading, the relationship between otherorallanguagedomains and reading is uneven.
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Of course, the relationship betweenorallanguageand literacy is reciprocal in nature, not unidirectional.
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Orallanguagedifficulties increased with age in the at-risk children who showed significantly lower expressive vocabulary at 3.5 years in comparison to controls.
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The findings point to factors that may present sources of difficulty underlying reading comprehension, in particular the critical role oforallanguagecompetencies.
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