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English Learners' Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary: Instruction Matters, but so Do Word Characteristics
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August, Diane; Uccelli, Paola; Artzi, Lauren; Barr, Christopher; Francis, David J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
In this cluster randomized control trial study, the authors explored the efficacy of an intervention designed to improve second-grade English learners' knowledge of challenging, high-utility English vocabulary. The authors also examined whether the intervention had a differential effect on content words that differ on two attributes (cognate…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Vocabulary Development, Academic Language, Reading Instruction
Academic Language and Listening Comprehension--Two Sides of the Same Coin? An Empirical Examination of Their Dimensionality, Relations to Reading Comprehension, and Assessment Modality
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Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Petscher, Yaacov; Uccelli, Paola; Kelcey, Benjamin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Two widely studied language skills in relation to reading comprehension are listening comprehension skill and academic language proficiency. Although their constituent skills and theoretical accounts of how they are related to reading comprehension share a large overlap, they have been studied in separate lines of work. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Academic Language and Listening Comprehension--Two Sides of the Same Coin? An Empirical Examination of Their Dimensionality, Relations to Reading Comprehension, and Assessment Modality
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Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Petscher, Yaacov; Uccelli, Paola; Kelcey, Benjamin – Grantee Submission, 2019
Two widely studied language skills in relation to reading comprehension are listening comprehension skill and academic language proficiency. Although their constituent skills and theoretical accounts of how they are related to reading comprehension share a large overlap, they have been studied in separate lines of work. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students