Sökning: "Linguistic skills"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 53 avhandlingar innehållade orden Linguistic skills.
1. Two Languages, Two Scripts : Bilingual and Biscriptal Children with and without Reading Difficulties Read and Write in Persian (L1) and Swedish (L2)
Sammanfattning : The main aim of this dissertation was to explore L1 (Persian) and L2 (Swedish) reading and writing of 26 bilingual biscriptal children with and without reading difficulties (RD) (years 4–9). Previous studies have mainly focused on Latin scripts or one alphabetic and one non-alphabetic script with English as L1 or L2. LÄS MER
2. Speech and language skills in children who required neonatal intensive care
Sammanfattning : Spontaneous speech and linguistic skills at age 6 1/2 years were studied in 284 children who required neonatal intensive cam (NIC) in 1980-1985 (cohort 1) and 40 healthy controls and in 230 NIC children born in 1986-1989 (cohort 2) and 71 neonatally healthy children born at term.Eight aspects of the children's spontaneous speech in a conversation were evaluated: Information, speech motor function, sound pattern, word finding, word selection, grammar, interaction and motivation, and ten linguistic skills were assessed according to a protocol including imitation tasks, comprehension tasks and auditory functions, phonemes and word fluency. LÄS MER
3. Metta Magdalena Lillies dagbok : En 1700-talstext och dess språk
Sammanfattning : Metta Magdalena Lillie (1709–1788) from Västergötland kept her personal diary between the years of 1737 and 1750. Her writing during these years resulted in a total of 241 pages, a number of which contain marginal notes along with a main body of text. LÄS MER
4. Mental Representation and Language Access: Evidence from Deaf Children with Different Language Backgrounds
Sammanfattning : The ability to identify with others and to understand that they have minds of their own is the cornerstone of human interaction. In the last 25 years there has been a large amount of research done on the development of mentalizing skills and an ongoing debate exists about the nature of acquiring these skills. LÄS MER
5. Determinants and Consequences of Language-in-Education Policies : Essays in Economics of Education
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three empirical studies. The first study, Rationales to Language-in-Education Policies in Postcolonial Africa: Towards a Holistic Approach, considers two issues. First, it explores the factors affecting the choice of an LiE policy in 35 African countries. LÄS MER