The findings of the study suggested that explicit vocabulary-focused instruction of academic formulaic sequences has the potential to boost language learners' awareness, cued output, and spontaneous use of formulaic sequences.
To further confirm the findings obtained by Bardovi-Harlig et al. (2015), Peters and Pauwels (2015) explored whether vocabulary-focused instruction, in which the formulaic sequences are the explicit focus of teaching, has the potential to boost language learners' awareness and use of academic formulaic sequences or not.
We really need to be boosting languages take-up by introducing more variety of courses.
In a written statement, Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, called the proposed changes "the same old, ineffective policies couched in new and exciting public relations boosting language".
The RS+ allele is seen as boosting language and phonological skills.
Such same-language subtitles indicate which words are being spoken, and so, via the lexically-guided retuning mechanism, they can boost speech learning and hence facilitate language understanding.
This is because subtitles in the language of the film indicate which words are being spoken, and so can boost speech learning about foreign speech sounds.
Language acquisition relies on imagery to boost second language learning among children and adolescents (Dörnyei and Chan, 2013).
"I don't know that the same would be true once a child was deep into reading," Gabrieli says, "but in this early stage of learning where children are building their reading abilities off of their language abilities, learning piano seems to provide a nice boost for language performance".
Hart and Risley had both worked in preschool programs designed to boost the language skills of low-income kids, but they had been dissatisfied with the results of such efforts: the achievement gap between rich and poor had continued to widen.
