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Jones, Gary; Cabiddu, Francesco; Barrett, Doug J. K.; Castro, Antonio; Lee, Bethany – First Language, 2023
Child-directed speech has long been known to influence children's vocabulary learning. However, while we know that caregiver utterances differ from those directed at adults in various ways, little is known about any differences in the lexical properties of child-directed and adult-directed utterances. We compare over half a million word tokens…
Descriptors: Child Language, Vocabulary Development, Caregiver Child Relationship, Phonemes
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Findley, Kelly; Whitacre, Ian; Atabas, Sebnem – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2021
Providing opportunities for students to express ideas in their own words is key to promoting authentic disciplinary engagement and robust conceptual understanding. In this article, we discuss our experiences and observations related to students' informal vocabulary in the context of a middle school probability unit. We noticed that students'…
Descriptors: Naming, Vocabulary Development, Informal Education, Probability