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From:The Reading Teacher (Vol. 61, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"If we're reading and we bump into something [a word] that we don't understand ... then if you just look up at the [instructional] charts, the context clues, then you can kind of like ... get an idea of what it means."...
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From:The Reading Teacher (Vol. 60, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedContemporary research has documented large differences in young students' vocabulary knowledge. By the end of second grade, the gap between students in the top and bottom vocabulary quartiles is approximately 4,000 root...
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From:The Reading Teacher (Vol. 56, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedContributors to recent conversations on the RTEACHER electronic mailing list (listserv) have asked why vocabulary instruction has almost disappeared in many classrooms and become a neglected area in teacher education...
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From:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Vol. 45, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe lexical diversity of children with specific language impairment (SU) (ages 3 years 7 months to 7 years 3 months) was compared to that of normally developing some-age peers and younger normally developing children...
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From:T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Vol. 28, Issue 11)This is a compilation of the educational /training and children's educational software products that have recently become available. FOCUS ON READING/LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Reading and language skills are a true...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 39, Issue 1)The easiest way to increase your vocabulary is to MAKE UP WORDS! Like the amusing "interocitor" from an old s-f movie. Here is a new way to make up words: combine prefixes and suffixes with no substantive element in...
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From:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Vol. 50, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: To evaluate whether the validity of the Receptive Vocabulary scale of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory for Infants (MCDI-I; L. Fenson et al., 1991), a parent-report measure of early vocabulary,...
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From:Instructor (1990) (Vol. 112, Issue 6)Mary French believes that if you give the power of words to students, their minds will soar. Learning new words "makes children feel enlightened," says French. "They crave words." The South Carolina mom is trying...
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From:Language and Speech (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This investigation studied the influence of lexical factors, known to impact lexical access in adults, on the word retrieval of children. Participants included 320 typical and atypical (word-finding...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBecause for two years we taught English in prewar Afghanistan, after September 11, 2001, we were especially aware of how difficult it was for English speakers in the United States to get their minds and their tongues...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 121, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between Rigvedic and post-Rigvedic usages of the word vrata has not been adequately explained, despite several studies of the concept. This paper distinguishes three aspects of the word's meaning in the...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe term 'hitch hitch' refers to the problem of integrating ordinary everyday language into scientifically correct language. Such a problem is encountered by writers and it occurs when the disparities between two...
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From:Advances in Cognitive Psychology (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis study investigates the predictive value of child-related and environmental characteristics for early lexical development. The German productive vocabulary of 51 2-year-olds (27 girls), assessed via parental report,...
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From:Library Trends (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedManaging a specific body of knowledge involves designing a controlled vocabulary that facilitates the organization of the knowledge. In the case of information about HIV/AIDS, the vocabulary needs to reflect the...
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From:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of the finite verb morphology composite (FVMC), number of errors per C-unit (Errors/CU), and percent grammatical C-units (PGCUs) in differentiating school-aged children with...
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From:Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedThis paper reports on a case study of a group of six non-native English speaking migrant women's experiences learning English vocabulary in a mobile assisted language learning (MALL) environment at a small community...
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From:Advances in Environmental BiologyPeer-ReviewedThis paper investigated the effects of receptive and productive learning from word pairs on comprehension, and the use of taught words in writing in Persian EFL learners with different proficiency levels. To this end, a...
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From:Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis study assessed the utility of a brief assessment (the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4th Edition; PPVT4) as a proxy for verbal IQ (VIQ) in large-scale studies of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In a sample of...
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From:Journal of Research in Childhood Education (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBroad-stroke approaches to vocabulary teaching in preschool include effective instructional elements, yet may be too ill-structured to affect the vocabulary learning of children experiencing serious delays. Using a...
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From:Communication Disorders Quarterly (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedForty-nine 3- to 5-year-old African American children enrolled in Head Start were assessed using the third edition of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (Dunn & Dunn, 1997). Their mean score (86.84, SD = 10.96) was...