Functional neuroimaging serves as a tool to better understand the cerebral correlates of
atypical behaviors, such as learning difficulties. While significant advances have been made …

Existing studies are inconclusive about if and how children's stronger language can support
target language instruction. This study analyzed 29 Malay language teachers' switching …

New research suggests that mechanisms involved in fine motor skills play an important role
in reading and writing development. Extending past work that focused on fine motor skills …

The importance of literacy in academics and the predominantly digital world cannot be
understated. The literacy component of writing is less researched than that of reading, even …

Reading and writing skills are intricately associated, and their mutual influence is seen as a
dynamic process during literacy development for English. However, a broader …

Background Accumulating evidence shows that the home literacy environment (HLE) has a
potent and early influence on children's language and literacy development. However, there …

Show-and-Tell is one of many activities recommended for encouraging children's oral
language production in classrooms across the world, but there is little research on the topic …

Diglossia involves a linguistic state with different spoken dialects and literary forms. Cases of
'modern diglossia'consist of speech communities that encompass a local identity through the …

The current study investigates the impact of the teachers' societal dominant language use
within a weak version of translanguaging in early heritage language education. We explored …

Recent considerations of multilingual societies and early childhood bilingualism raise new
questions about what constitutes a heritage language, and this warrants a closer …