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Choudhury, Anindya Syam – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
Although it is a core component of a language user's overall linguistic competence, vocabulary has traditionally not received the kind of attention it deserved, being usually lumped with other kinds of competence till 1980s and 1990s when researchers started focusing on it with great interest. The present paper discusses what the notion of lexical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Case Studies, Vocabulary Development
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
We conduct a randomized evaluation of a school library program on children's language skills. We find that the program had little impact on students' scores on a language test administered 16 months after implementation. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.13 and 0.11 standard deviations based on the 95 and 90…
Descriptors: Intervals, Language Tests, Attendance, School Libraries