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Olivia Rush; Krystal L. Werfel; Emily Lund – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study compares responses of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) who use spoken language with responses of children who have typical hearing on a repeated word association task to evaluate lexical-semantic organization. Method: This study included 109 participants in early kindergarten or who had completed first grade. The…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students
Amandine Hippolyte; Nicolas Ribeiro; Laure Ibernon; Nathalie Marec-Breton; Christelle Declercq – First Language, 2025
This study aimed to establish normative data for 145 words using phonological and semantic association tasks with 242 French schoolchildren, ranging from ages 5 (Grande Section) to 8 (Cours Elémentaire 2), providing a fundamental resource for future research and educational planning. The participants were engaged in two primary tasks: a free…
Descriptors: French, Phonology, Semantics, Preschool Children
Çetikaya, Fatih Çetin; Sönmez, Muhammet; Topçam, Abdurrahman Baki – International Education Studies, 2020
This research was carried out to determine the effectiveness and functionality of the word association test (WAT), which is a formative assessment tool that is frequently emphasized on today's modern education systems. The study group consisted of 60 students in a public school in Kocaeli in the school year 2018-2019. Participants were identified…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Associative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Public Schools
Sasi, Abolfazl Shirban – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2018
Pictologics (PLS) is a language teaching method which relies on imaginative usage of pictures. The current paper reports the effects of applying this method on enhancing critical thinking ability of the Malaysian students. 69 students (32 boys & 37 girls) in two classes in a public primary school in Penang, Malaysia participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students, Second Language Instruction
Toghyani Khorasgani, Amir; Khanehgir, Mansour – Online Submission, 2017
Early language learning for children is increasingly common, and the majority of parents and the public do not see it as superfluous or overburdening children. Moreover, teaching a foreign language to very young children has been an increasingly dominant trend in most globalized societies. While there is abundant literature that supports teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Robb, Elizabeth; Sinatra, Richard; Eschenauer, Robert – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
This mixed methods counterbalanced study compared the gain score means of two different approaches to vocabulary acquisition--Vocabulary Theater (VT) and Teacher Directed Instruction (TDI) for 8th grade students from three schools in New York. The purpose of the study was to explore the effects of a peer teaching approach on students' vocabulary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Peer Teaching, Grade 8, Academic Discourse
Morra, Sergio; Camba, Roberta – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
The goal of this study was to investigate which working memory and long-term memory components predict vocabulary learning. We used a nonword learning paradigm in which 8- to 10-year-olds learned picture-nonword pairs. The nonwords varied in length (two vs. four syllables) and phonology (native sounding vs. including one Russian phoneme). Short,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Associative Learning, Short Term Memory, Learning Processes
Schoonen, Rob; Verhallen, Marianne – Language Testing, 2008
The assessment of so-called depth of word knowledge has been the focus of research for some years now. In this article the construct of deep word knowledge is further specified as the decontextualized knowledge of word meanings and word associations. Most studies so far have involved adolescent and adult second language learners. In this article,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Associative Learning, Foreign Countries
Preissler, Melissa Allen; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2005
Young children are readily able to use known labels to constrain hypotheses about the meanings of new words under conditions of referential ambiguity. At issue is the kind of information children use to constrain such hypotheses. According to one theory, children take into account the speaker's intention when solving a referential puzzle. In the…
Descriptors: Inferences, Autism, Language Acquisition, Intention