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The Effects of Vocabulary Instructional Methods on Vocabulary Retention
… of three instructional methods for teaching vocabulary (teacherpresented, student-presented, and no direct presentation) commonly used by English teachers was most effective in affecting student achievement. Sixty-two eleventh grade students in a selected county in Georgia served as subjects …
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Vocabulary learning in hypertext
This study is concerned with compiling a vocabulary lesson on computers. With the help of computer technology such as hypertext, designers of vocabulary lessons should consider lexical structure of the target vocabulary and the organization of the mental lexicon.
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Vocabulary Testing and the Influence of Second Language on Third Language Vocabulary Acquisition
… reporting two empirical studies drawing on a vocabulary testing perspective. The studies investigate the impact of prior lexical knowledge on additional language learning of Hungarian native speakers, who speak Romanian as an L2 and English as an L3. From a theoretical standpoint, the studies …
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Vocabulary learning strategies, vocabulary skills, and integrative motivation levels among university students in Batam
… to the English proficiency are motivation and vocabulary learning strategies. Yet these two elements are generally acknowledged among language teachers and learners as an essential factor in language competence, but paid less attention in the learning process practicality. This research aimed …
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Attentional Orientation and Vocabulary Size
… and disambiguation is associated with superior vocabulary ability (Bion et al., 2013; Fernald et al., 2006). Yet, existing research on attentional orientation during word learning is limited. The present study examined whether the speed of attentional orientation during novel word learning is …
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Psychological Vocabulary in Roman Poetry
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A virtual vocabulary speech recognizer
… available speech recognizer sees its recognition vocabulary increased through the use of virtual memory management techniques. central to the design are issues concerning the nature of speech, its effectiveness as an isolated mode of communication with computers, and its role as a part of a …
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Computational distinctions of vocabulary type.
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Psychology.
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Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Vocabulary Knowledge (CDA-V): Vocabulary Depth Assessment and Zone of Proximal Development
… presents the Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Vocabulary (CDA-V). The CDA-V is an existing depth of vocabulary assessment approached with Dynamic Assessment. The Word Associates Test (Read, 1993) and Graduated Prompts (Gutiérrez-Clellen & Peña, 2001), respectively. As a result of this …
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Children's difficulties with basal reader vocabulary
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Vocabulary acquisition and the generation effect
… and how its principles might be incorporated in vocabulary acquisition. Subjects attempted to learn 22 unfamiliar vocabulary words under one of three conditions. (1) definition-only control subjects repeatedly wrote each word and definition; (2) sentence generation subjects wrote each word and …
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A study of children's written vocabulary.
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Incidental acquisition of productive academic vocabulary
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Residential streets : a vocabulary of elements.
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Student Approaches to Learning Chinese Vocabulary
… use as they learn to speak and write Chinese vocabulary words in the first year of an elementary Chinese class. The main research question was: what strategies do native English-speaking beginning learners of Chinese use to learn Chinese vocabulary words in their speaking and writing? The …
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The Vocabulary Demands of Popular English Songs
… often-discussed benefits is the potential for vocabulary learning through songs; however, few researchers have examined whether songs are a suitable source of input for vocabulary learning for English language learners. To address this need, this corpus-driven study investigated the vocabulary …
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Fifth graders' conceptualization of basal reader vocabulary
… taken from basal readers, the multiple-choice vocabulary test, named the Levels of Meaning Test, was designed to measure the three levels of conceptualization. Each multiple-choice item included an abstract, functional, and verbalism definition. Students were asked to choose one of the three …
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Evaluating Context In Vocabulary Acquisition In Reading
… context on the processes that underlie vocabulary acquisition in reading. The eye movements of adult skilled readers were monitored while they read sentences containing informative context followed by a known or novel target word. Both experiments provided new evidence of increased …
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