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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"New words"”.
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Using definitions to understand new words
… in definitions to understand meanings of new words. Previous research suggests that students often experience difficulty when asked to write sentences from definitions of unfamiliar words (Miller, 1986b; Miller & Gildea, 1987).
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Effects of long-term phonological knowledge on learning new words
… for the temporary storage and rehearsal of new information, and long-term knowledge is responsible for storing information gained throughout the lifetime. If one or both of these areas are found to be deficient, language impairments may be present. Although the role of short-term memory and …
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Learning the meaning of new words: Behavioural and neuroimaging evidence
… consequences of storing, retrieving, and using new lexical representations. A number of behavioural experiments and one final fMRI study were conducted. Experiments 1-2 investigated effects of context variability (number of different contexts) and semantic richness (number and type of semantic …
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Learning new words: effects of meaning, memory consolidation, and sleep
Although encountering novel words in one's own language in adulthood is not an uncommon event, the relevant cognitive processes have become the target of systematic investigation only in recent years. This thesis addressed three main questions regarding word learning. The first was concerned with …
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How Do Children Learn New Words in A Second Language? The Role of Self-Teaching in Orthographic Learning
Learning to read written words is the major benchmark that beginning readers must meet to achieve high-level reading comprehension later on. In my dissertation, I make among the first attempts to examine self-teaching— the process by which children teach themselves new written words via independent …
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The Effects of Detailed Visual Analysis of Words Using Magnetic Letters for Remedial Reading Students in the First Grade
… study was to determine if a detailed analysis of words using magnetic letters during instructional lessons with first grade remedial reading students would improve word recognition. The eight subjects were first grade males and females in the Chapter 1 Remedial Reading Program in a Western New …
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Socio-cultural Conventionality and Children’s Selective Learning
… but they are also very selective when learning new words (Sabbagh & Henderson, 2013). Although many studies have shown children’s selectivity when learning words, still little is known about the motives behind children’s selectivity or the mechanisms by which this selectivity works. The major …
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The Chirurgeon
… a collection of poems created via "chirurgy," a new compositional method developed for this volume. Chirurgy employs various procedural and creative writing techniques to produce entirely new poems from source texts. In stage one of the process, source poems are reduced to their sequences of …
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The effects of semantic and thematic clustering on the learning of second language vocabulary
… with more difficulty than sets of unrelated words while thematic clusters were learned more easily than sets of unassociated words. These results suggest that the common practice of presenting ESL students with new words grouped in semantic clusters be replaced by the presentation of words …
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Modelling out-of-vocabulary words for robust speech recognition
… problem of unknown or out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in continuous speech recognition. Most of today's state-of-the-art speech recognition systems can recognize only words that belong to some predefined finite word vocabulary. When encountering an OOV word, a speech recognizer erroneously …
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The Use of Word Games to Enhance the Vocabulary of Sixth Grade Students
… learning, word retention and motivation to learn words for 6th grade students. Twenty-nine students participated in this study, 22 EO students and 7 ELLs. Quantitative and qualitative data included a repeated ANOVA, independent t-tests, researcher observations, a Likert Survey, and student …
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Word learning strategies in early childhood : mutual exclusivity across language backgrounds
… infants and young children successfully learn new words at a rapid pace. As most research has focused on the word learning strategies used by monolingual English-speaking children, less is known about how bilingual children manage ambiguity and learn new words. As bilingualism is highly …
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A semantics based computational model for word learning
… benefits to children. However, before providing new content, an ITS must assess a child's existing knowledge. Several studies have shown that children learn new words by forming semantic relationships with words they already know. Human tutors often implicitly use semantics to assess a tutee's …
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Query Segmentation For E-Commerce Sites
… score of query pairs and involve Wikipedia for new words recognition. Furthermore, we use two unique E-Commerce evaluation methods to quantify the accuracy of our query segmentation method.
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Beliefs about language learning and their relationship to the ability to integrate information from multiple sources in interpreting novel kanji compounds
… may lead students to greater gains in learning new words than learning from one source by itself (Nagy & Anderson, 1984). However, such evidence has not been obtained from either English-speaking students (Nagy, Anderson, & Herman, 1987; Wysocki & Jenkins, 1987) or learners of English (Fisher, …
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Investigating the effect of spaced versus massed practice on vocabulary retention in the EFL classroom
… students were taught the meaning of 30 new words in a massed learning condition and 30 other new words in a spaced learning condition. In the massed learning condition, each target word was practiced four times in one classroom session. In the spaced learning condition, each target word …
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Preschoolers' Use of Vocal Affect as a Cue to Referential Intent
… and 5-year-olds could use vocal affect to learn new words. Results indicated that both 4- and 5-year-olds’ eye gaze reflected the use of both positive and negative vocal affect to map novel labels to novel objects. When 5-year-olds completed extension and generalization tasks, negative but not …
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Constraints on phonological statistical learning in adults
… artificial languages containing sequences of CVC words. The voicing (voiced, voiceless), manner of articulation (plosive, nasal, fricative) and non-adjacent pairings of consonants were controlled so each language contained three concurrent types of statistical information: the single-feature bias …
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Assessing the Effects of Momentary Priming On Memory Retention During An Interference Task
… of previously learned information (target words), was assessed on its ability to reinforce memory for target words while the subject was performing an interference task. The interference task required subjects to learn new words and thus interfered with their memory of the target words. The …
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An improved audiometer for specific language impaired children
… grew older they may find difficulty in learning new words and making a conversation. Since children with SLI have no hearing loss, an adaptive computerized program was developed to generate speech from the text entered so as to examine their language accuracy. The application was developed using …
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