So is the real Fong the one who addresses her expressive tasks with equal seriousness, or the one who sends the whole exercise up, rolling her eyes and grinning conspiratorially at the audience?
Only a small number of studies (n = 2) utilized expressive tasks to measure Chinese vocabulary, and so we only used receptive Chinese scores in the following analysis.
Used by a group of ninth graders facing a biology final, the expressive writing task effectively eliminated the relationship between test anxiety and poor test performance: even highly anxious students performed just as well as non-anxious classmates.
This exception involved an expressive writing task that, according to Pennebaker [ 50], incorporated exploration of the patients' thoughts and emotions.
Altough no advancement in the theorical knowledge about the multi-level mechanisms that underlie the expressive writing task is scheduled, the results of this trial will contribute to the evidence-based knowledge on the application of the expressive writing procedure for clinical purposes in clinical settings [ 52].
Finally, the study using the expressive writing task as intervention program [ 15] did not use a waiting list control group at all, but advised participants in the control group to write about superficial topics, in a factual manner, without exploring thoughts or feelings.
Findings were that the adults perceive receptive language tasks (following instructions) to be more difficult than expressive language tasks (speaking to others at work).
Scores from the two expressive language tasks were combined, as were the data from the two receptive language tasks.
The first phase of the study used a survey to explore the perceived difficulty of receptive and expressive language tasks by adults with DS.
Moreover, a recent study did not confirm clinically significant deficits in receptive or expressive semantic tasks after unilateral left or right anterior temporal lobe lesion at least 1 year after the stroke or resection (Lambon-Ralph et al., 2010).
