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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Vocabulary Growth"”.
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The Relationship Between Word Consciousness and Vocabulary Growth and Achievement in Fourth and Fifth Graders
… the relationship between word consciousness and vocabulary growth by analyzing the results from a local assessment, the Word Consciousness Assessment (WCA), as well as a standardized assessment, the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests. These data came from portions of a larger study, the Multifaceted …
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Genes and environment in language acquisition : a study of early vocabulary and syntactic development in twins
… aspects of language development are examined: vocabulary and syntax. The development of vocabulary in 43 MZ and 33 same-sex DZ English-speaking twins was studied via parent report. The rate and content of the first 100 or so words in children's productive vocabularies were examined. MZ twins …
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The birth of a word
… up to study early word learning, characterizing vocabulary growth and its relation to the child's environment. Our study is guided by the idea that the natural activities and social structures of daily life provide helpful learning constraints. We study this through analysis of the largest-ever …
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Workshop Training And Instructional Coaching: A Model For Professional Development That Results In Academic Student Growth
… teachers attended the same workshop training on vocabulary instruction and were trained in using procedural cards for teaching science vocabulary. Two teachers were randomly selected to be in the experimental group (workshop training and instructional coaching together) and two teachers were …
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ENGLISH WORD-MAKING
… skills in language analysis, speaking, reading, vocabulary growth, grammar and usage study, spelling, composition, and literary interpretation.</p><p>The main body of the text consists of ten chapters, each exploring, diachronically and synchronically, a primary category of English …
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Capitalizing on Multiple Intelligences to Enhance Vocabulary Development in a Sixth Grade Classroom
… Theory is a more effective approach to vocabulary development than direct instruction. Eighty Sixth Grade students from a suburban school district in Western New York were the subjects for this study. In order to determine the students' prior knowledge of the 60 words to be used in the …
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Navigating Variability: Language Development in Linguistically Diverse Environments
… 2, I report a large-scale study examining vocabulary development in children from a variety of language learning contexts. I replicate past findings reporting faster vocabulary development in monolingual children than bilingual children, while also revealing for the first time that exposure …
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Increasing vocabulary in multilingual children using conventional and progressive discrete trial teaching
… their peers, facing challenges like slower vocabulary growth and weak oral language skills, negatively impacting their academic performance. This paper aims to study the effect of progressive discrete trial teaching (DTT) on increasing Icelandic productive vocabulary in multilingual …
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Parental Shared Reading Intervention: Examining the Effects of Structured Parental Reading Training on Vocabulary Acquisition in Children Undergoing Treatment for Leukemia
… with leukemia focused on improving their vocabulary growth, an important factor facilitating academic success. The parents of these children participated in the intervention with their children during hospitalization. Nineteen parent-child dyads were recruited to participate in this …
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SEL for DLLs: The Influence of Social-Emotional Learning Programs on Key Outcomes for Dual Language Learners in Head Start
… participating in an SEL program predicted growth in DLLs’ social skills and vocabulary over time compared to participating in a control group. I conducted a multilevel moderation analysis to examine the extent to which DLL outcomes depended on the overall quality of teacher-child …
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An evaluative study of the effect of pupil sharing on the selection of library books and on reading vocabulary
… of reading interests, and on the improvement of vocabulary of second grade pupils.The study was conducted over a period of twelve weeks from the first pre test to the final post test.The subjects selected for the study were forty-two second grade pupils in two classes in Anthony Elementary …
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Interactions of caregiver speech and early word learning in the Speechome corpus : computational explorations
… we examined the relationship of the child's vocabulary growth to prosodic and distributional features of the naturally occurring caregiver speech to which the child was exposed. We measured fundamental frequency, intensity, phoneme duration, word usage frequency, word recurrence and mean …
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A Case Study of English Learners' Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary in a High School English 1 for Speakers of Other Languages Classroom
… methods that support the acquisition of academic vocabulary deemed essential at the secondary level. Purpose: The purpose of this action research study was to determine what instructional practices contributed to the acquisition of academic vocabulary of ELs. The research question guiding this …
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The applicability of implementing Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) with young children with developmental disabilities who reside in the Western Cape and speak Afrikaans or IsiXhosa at home: parent and professional perspectives
… produces favourable long-term results in both vocabulary growth and linguistic structure after a relatively short intervention period. However, very little research has been conducted to prove its effectiveness in culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Furthermore, before …
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Early Lexical and Grammatical Development of Xitsonga Spoken in Giyani, Limpopo Using the Adapted Xitsonga MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Toddlers Form A Preliminary Study
… speakers 2) the relationship between age and vocabulary size 3) the trends and patterns of vocabulary growth and grammar development and 4) the development of mean length of utterance in this population. Methods: The study used a mixed methods approach. For Phase one, a parentreport tool, the …