VIDBE-Q Volume 68 Issue 1
based strategies are those which make speech more comprehensible to someone
learning English. Learning supports may be put in place to augment language
development. These strategies and supports include:
• Self-monitor speech and consider reducing the complexity of speech,
slowing the speech rate, increasing response time, paraphrasing or
rephrasing sentences, defining unfamiliar words, clarifying figures of speech
or idiomatic sayings, and/or using precise descriptors (Kamei-Hannan &
Ricci, 2015).
• Bring awareness to multiple meanings of words and sentence structures
(Logan & Kieffer, 2022).
• Promote morphological awareness by explicitly pointing out word parts
including word roots, prefixes, suffixes, and bring attention to how
similarities between word parts can help with comprehension (Logan &
Kieffer, 2022).
• Discuss how syntax impacts comprehension, such as how a question and a
sentence may have the same words but in a different order, with different
punctuation and voice inflection (Silverman et al., 2020).
