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The effect of curriculum on foundation phase learners' receptive vocabulary
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The Effects of a Computer-mediated Intervention on "At-risk" Preschool Students' Receptive Vocabulary and Computer Literacy Skills.
… intervention on "at-risk" preschool students' receptive vocabulary development, computer-literacy skills, and enthusiasm for leaning. Twenty-two preschool-aged children attending an urban primary public school and participating in government subsidized school lunch program participated in the …
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A Quasi-Experiment Examining Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Preschool Head Start Children Using Mobile Media Apps
… types of mobile media apps to increase the receptive and expressive vocabulary development of preschool children living in economically disadvantaged communities. Children and teachers in four Head Start classrooms participated in the quasi-experimental study, which included an eight-week …
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Comparing the Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Intermediate-level Students of Different Native languages in an Intensive English Program
… test that does not involve any form of explicit vocabulary testing, some degree of variation in lexical knowledge of students within an individual class should not be surprising. However, very little research has ever quantified this variation. The current study fills the gap in this important …
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Mothers' Communication Style and the Development of Child Compliance and Noncompliance During the Third Year of Life
… (N = 55). Two models examining the role of receptive vocabulary were evaluated. First, mothers with higher receptive vocabulary scores were hypothesized to display more warm responsive communication in a teaching situation, which would be related to higher children's receptive vocabulary …
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Predictors of cognitive and socioemotional development in early and middle childhood: Evidence from Chile and Hungary
… the relationship between maths achievement, receptive vocabulary, Grade Point Average (GPA), self-esteem, and bullying in 8- to 12-year-old children. Unlike the international literature, we found a larger relationship between self-esteem and GPA, and a smaller relationship between bullying …
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The Effects of Word Instruction During Classroom Read-Alouds on the Acquisition of Vocabulary
… of Text Talk during read-aloud to increase the receptive vocabulary of participants. The investigator read six picturebooks to two groups of kindergarteners. Group A had 21 participants and Group B had 20 participants. Each group received instruction on two different sets of target vocabulary …
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An Investigation of the Additive Benefits of Parent Dialogic Reading Techniques in Older Preschool Children
… school year participated. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition (PPVT-4) and Expressive Vocabulary Test, Second Edition (EVT-2) were administered pre-intervention and post-intervention implementation. Consistent with multiple baseline design, all students received weekly progress …
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A yes/no vocabulary test in a university placement setting
Receptive vocabulary knowledge appears to reflect broader receptive L1 and L2 language skills such as reading and listening comprehension. The Yes/No vocabulary test, developed to provide a quick estimate of total receptive vocabulary size, requires subjects to check off known words, leaving …
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Relations Among Phonologic and Semantic/syntactic Development Factors in Preschool Children
… The second was to explore the relation between receptive syntax and phonology. The third was to determine if the size of the receptive vocabulary was related to phonological deficiency.
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Saute ça : the acquisition of the faire faire causative by first and second language learners of French
… 5 and 6 were analyzed. A standardized measure of receptive vocabulary in French was taken from each L2 child, as well as a 30-minute naturalistic speech sample incorporating the causative elicitation procedure. The L2 children's receptive vocabulary and their ability to form single-agent …
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AN ANALYSIS OF CODE SWITCHING EVENTS IN TYPICALLY DEVELOPING SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… Spanish. We investigated code-switched events, vocabulary measures, and disfluencies to better understand if children utilize code-switching to fill in lexical gaps in Spanish, as measured by disfluencies surrounding the code-switch. Results indicate that children’s spoken vocabulary diversity …
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PHONOLOGICAL AND LEXICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO READING AND SPELLING IN ENGLISH: A COMPARISON OF ENGLISH-L1, MANDARIN-L1 AND MALAY-L1 BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… 2002). PHONOLOGICAL MEMORY IS ASSOCIATED WITH VOCABULARY ACQUISITION (GATHERCOLE ET AL., 1992), AND READING (GOSWAMI & BRYANT, 1990) AND SPELLING DEVELOPMENT (BROWN & HULME, 1996), YET FEW RESEARCHERS HAVE EXAMINED THESE INTER-RELATIONSHIPS USING THE SAME PARTICIPANTS, AND NONE WITH DIFFERENT …
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The Effect of Exposure Frequency and Reading Comprehension on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention Through Reading for Learners of German as a Foreign Language
… learners acquire a significant amount of vocabulary incidentally during reading after only two exposures, and that receptive as well as productive gains are moderately to strongly related to learners' text comprehension. It was further found that two or four exposures resulted in fairly …
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A Comparison of Full-Day and Half-Day English and French Immersion Kindergarten: Children's Outcomes and Experiences
… administered standardized measures of English receptive vocabulary and reading, as well as a print task, a number sense task, a drawing task, and an interview, at the beginning and end of kindergarten, as well as at the beginning of Grade 1. Additionally, children from French immersion (FI) …
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A large-scale analysis of lexical diversity in children who stutter
… in spontaneous conversation and on standardized vocabulary tests. Correlations among lexical diversity measures and dissociations between receptive and expressive standard scores were also calculated. CWS demonstrated similar lexical diversity compared to CWNS in measures computed for spontaneous …
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Individual Variation in French-L2 Spelling Ability
… an online survey. Participants were assessed on receptive vocabulary, print exposure (PE), morphological awareness (MA), and general spelling ability, in both English and French. English vocabulary, PE, and MA accounted for 35% of the variance in overall English spelling. French vocabulary and MA …
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Exploring Early Gesture and Language Development Trends in Sesotho-Speaking Infants (8 to 18 Months)
… are at risk of language delays and disorders. Vocabulary breadth, in particular, strongly predicts literacy, cognitive reasoning, emotional regulation, social interaction, interpersonal relationships and long-term outcomes. Research in this field has historically been dominated by studies …
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Spoken texts coupled with moving images in the early years – effects on comprehension, language, and literacy
… effect on outcomes. Both quantitative outcomes (receptive vocabulary, letter sound knowledge, and early word recognition) and qualitative outcomes (comprehension of video content, teacher-child dialogue and drawings) were obtained. An experimental design was used with 4-5-year-old children in …
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