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Biemiller, Andrew; Rosenstein, Mark; Sparks, Randall; Landauer, Thomas K.; Foltz, Peter W. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
Determining word meanings that ought to be taught or introduced is important for educators. A sequence for vocabulary growth can be inferred from many sources, including testing children's knowledge of word meanings at various ages, predicting from print frequency, or adult-recalled Age of Acquisition. A new approach, Word Maturity, is based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Natural Language Processing, Word Frequency
Torrance, Nancy; Olson, David R. – 1982
The language of 29 Canadian children was sampled during the first two years of schooling in free conversations and in more formal school-like tasks as part of a three-year longitudinal study of the properties of oral language and their relation to other measures of cognitive, linguistic, and reading performance. The language samples were subjected…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis