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Beatriz González-Fernández – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Second language acquisition (SLA) researchers have long searched for patterning in the development of linguistic elements (e.g., grammar and morphology). However, little attention has been given to the examination of systematicity in vocabulary acquisition, limiting our understanding about how overall vocabulary is learnt. The current study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Sequential Learning, Written Language
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Aoyama, Katsura; Davis, Barbara L. – Journal of Child Language, 2017
The goal of this study was to investigate non-adjacent consonant sequence patterns in target words during the first-word period in infants learning American English. In the spontaneous speech of eighteen participants, target words with a Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (C[subscript 1]VC[subscript 2]) shape were analyzed. Target words were grouped into…
Descriptors: Infants, English, Vocabulary Development, Sequential Learning
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Brooks, Greg – Education 3-13, 2021
This article summarises the linguistic base of initial reading and spelling in English for the benefit of teachers and others engaged in education who need explicit understanding of parts of the linguistic base in order to teach initial literacy accurately. The aspects covered are those most relevant to children entering formal schooling: spoken…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Spelling, Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages)
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Madden, Oneil; Nelson, Trishana; Barnett-Passard, Rona – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Telecollaboration allows for students to develop foreign/second language competences linguistically, culturally, and interculturally. The use of platforms, such as WhatsApp and Zoom, is now more frequently exploited in foreign language education to ensure that a wider cross section of students, including Jamaicans, can develop global competences.…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning
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Testolin, Alberto; Stoianov, Ivilin; Sperduti, Alessandro; Zorzi, Marco – Cognitive Science, 2016
Learning the structure of event sequences is a ubiquitous problem in cognition and particularly in language. One possible solution is to learn a probabilistic generative model of sequences that allows making predictions about upcoming events. Though appealing from a neurobiological standpoint, this approach is typically not pursued in…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Neurological Organization, Models, Probability
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Aitkuzhinova-Arslan, Ainur; Gün, Süleyman; Üstünel, Eda – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
Teaching vocabulary is a comprehensive process in foreign language learning requiring specific techniques of appropriate instruction and accurate strategy. The present study was conducted to examine the effects of teaching vocabulary to Turkish young learners in a semantic clustering way through digital storytelling. To investigate this aim, six…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Semantics