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Lenhart, Jan; Lenhard, Wolfgang; Vaahtoranta, Enni; Suggate, Sebastian – Educational Psychology, 2018
Shared-book reading is a well-established intervention to foster vocabulary development. Factors influencing its effectiveness are, however, less well studied, particularly with regard to story-delivery. We contrasted a read-aloud with a free storytelling approach and tested effects on vocabulary learning. In the first study, 83 preschoolers aged…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Listening
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Deutschmann, Mats; Panichi, Luisa – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2013
This paper presents some of the overall frameworks and models for language learning that were used under Avalon (Access to Virtual and Action Learning live ONline), an EU co-funded project aimed at developing language-learning scenarios in virtual worlds. The introduction and background summarize some of the theories that constitute the starting…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Computer Simulation, Computer System Design, Models