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Definition
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Why this measure?
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Purposes
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Instrument we use to collect natural speech
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This measure is more stable across dialects than vocabulary, pronunciation, or pragmatics.
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- To assess the English oral proficiency of school age children
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- Determine English language dominance in a brief and efficient manner.
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Definition
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Advantages
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Disadvantages
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A type of correlational research in which resear chers observe and collect data on a number of variables without trying to influence those variables
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You can better establish the real sequence of events, allowing you insight into cause-and-effect relationships.
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Time-consuming and often more expensive than other types of studies
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Allows repeated observations of the same individual over time.
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Attrition, which occurs when participants drop out of a study, is common in longitudinal studies and may result in invalid conclusions.
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Definition
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Types of schema
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The formations of ideas based on prior knowledge and known information
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Linguistic schema includes the decoding features a person needs in order to understand how words are organized and fit together in a sentence (be it spoken or written discourse).
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Content schema refers to knowledge about the subject matter or content of a text.
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Cheatography n. The art of mapping complex subjects into clear, instantly navigable reference guides.
