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Subekti, Nanang Bagus; Lawson, Michael J. – International Education Journal, 2007
The ways that students learn new words when studying a foreign language is not well understood. Research in this field has commonly investigated the effectiveness of the application of certain vocabulary learning strategies. Relatively few of the studies have investigated the strategies that students use to learn new words. This paper reports the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies, Graduate Students, Second Language Learning
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Samuelsson, Stefan; Byrne, Brian; Quain, Peter; Wadsworth, Sally; Corley, Robin; DeFries, John C.; Willcutt, Eric; Olson, Richard – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Individual differences in measures of prereading skills and in questionnaire measures of 4-5-year-old twins' print environments in Australia, Scandinavia, and the United States were explored with a behavioral-genetic design. Modest phenotypic correlations were found between environmental measures and the twins' print knowledge, general verbal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Influences, Genetics, Prereading Experience