Effects of Transcription Mode on Word-Level Features of Compositional Quality among French Immersion Elementary Students
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Measures
2.2.1. Parental Demographic Questionnaire
2.2.2. Receptive Vocabulary
2.2.3. Written Expression
2.3. Procedures for Scoring
2.4. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Statistics
3.2. ANOVA Results
3.2.1. Total Number of Words
3.2.2. Number of Correctly Spelled Words
3.2.3. Proportion of Correctly Spelled Words
3.3. Spell Check Analyses
4. Discussion
4.1. Educational Implications
4.2. Limitations and Future Directions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Think-Aloud Questions Supporting Writing Prompts
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Paper | Keyboard | ||||||
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N | M | SD | Range | M | SD | Range | |
Total Number of Words | 47 | 43.64 | 23.34 | 5–98 | 46.66 | 23.85 | 10–124 |
Number of Correctly Spelled Words | 47 | 31.09 | 21.02 | 3–90 | 37.32 | 23.97 | 6–111 |
Proportion of Correctly Spelled Words | 47 | 0.69 | 0.19 | 0.15–1.00 | 0.76 | 0.20 | 0.27–1.00 |
Spell Check Used (n = 22) | Spell Check Not Used (n = 25) | |||||
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M | SD | Range | M | SD | Range | |
Total Number of Words | 48.00 | 18.86 | 26–112 | 45.48 | 27.85 | 10–124 |
Number of Correctly Spelled Words | 39.41 | 20.43 | 11–103 | 35.48 | 27.00 | 6–111 |
Proportion of Correctly Spelled Words | 0.80 | 0.21 | 0.31–1.00 | 0.72 | 0.19 | 0.27–1.00 |
Receptive Vocabulary | 53.52 | 23.07 | 17–108 | 51.73 | 24.47 | 22–91 |
Age (In Months) | 103.84 | 9.20 | 86.29–125.59 | 103.00 | 10.77 | 87.49–127.13 |
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Chin, M.; White, C.; Burchell, D.; Hipfner-Boucher, K.; Broc, L.; Chen, X. Effects of Transcription Mode on Word-Level Features of Compositional Quality among French Immersion Elementary Students. Languages 2024, 9, 234. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9070234
Chin M, White C, Burchell D, Hipfner-Boucher K, Broc L, Chen X. Effects of Transcription Mode on Word-Level Features of Compositional Quality among French Immersion Elementary Students. Languages. 2024; 9(7):234. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9070234
Chicago/Turabian StyleChin, Michelle, Carolyn White, Diana Burchell, Kathleen Hipfner-Boucher, Lucie Broc, and Xi Chen. 2024. "Effects of Transcription Mode on Word-Level Features of Compositional Quality among French Immersion Elementary Students" Languages 9, no. 7: 234. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9070234
APA StyleChin, M., White, C., Burchell, D., Hipfner-Boucher, K., Broc, L., & Chen, X. (2024). Effects of Transcription Mode on Word-Level Features of Compositional Quality among French Immersion Elementary Students. Languages, 9(7), 234. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9070234