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Nesrin Isikoglu; Müzeyyen Güzen – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study aims to investigate the impact of digital storytelling activities on children's language skills, specifically focusing on expressive, receptive, and narrative abilities, as well as their utilization of technological elements in their stories. The study involved 18 children who were enrolled in a public kindergarten classroom, and it…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Educational Technology, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Ilhan Polat; Hakan Dedeoglu – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
Choosing a writing topic poses a particularly serious challenge for young learners. Topic selection affects all other steps of the writing process. Therefore, the writing topic should be related to a subject that the student knows about, is interested in, and can produce content on. Basing writing on students' immediate environment and experiences…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Narration, Writing Assignments
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Akmese, Pelin Pistav; Kanmaz, Serap – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
This study aimed to evaluate the language skills of preschool children through narrative. The Turkish Test of Early Language Development (TEDIL) was used to evaluate the receptive and expressive verbal language skills of the children, and language samples were collected using the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI). The Mean Length of…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Preschool Children, Narration, Language Tests
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Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Göksun, Tilbe – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Before infants produce words, they can discriminate changes in motion event components such as manner (how an action is performed) and path (trajectory of an action). Individual differences in nonlinguistic event categorization are related to children's later verb comprehension (Konishi, Stahl, Golinkoff, & Hirsh-Pasek, 2016). We asked: (a) Do…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Çakmak, Ceren Tasatan; Merç, Ali – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Vocabulary has been accepted as an important aspect of language learning in many studies. In the light of these studies in literature, the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the general and academic lexical competence and performance of preparatory class students at School of Foreign Languages, Kütahya Dumlupinar University. Within this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kirmizi, Özkan; Kömeç, Funda – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
The aim of the present study was to measure the effect of the flipped classroom on vocabulary learning in terms of both receptive and productive vocabulary. To do this, a post-test experimental research design was implemented. The participants of the study are 58 high school students. The experimental group was exposed to a four-week flipped…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Blended Learning
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Kavanoz, Suzan; Varol, Burcu – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
Receptive knowledge of vocabulary has usually been the mostly investigated dimension of lexical assessment while the productive aspect of vocabulary has been studied to a lesser extent. There is hardly any research on the productive vocabulary of English foreign language learners in Turkish context, particularly as far as primary school students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Okyay, Ozlem; Kandir, Adalet – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study aims to review the impact of the interactive story reading method on 48-72 month children's vocabulary based on receptive and expressive language. The study group is 52 children in the 48-72 months age group at the nurseries of primary schools at Ankara province. The research employed a combined pattern analyzing both quantitative and…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Expressive Language, Vocabulary Development, Control Groups
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Ozturk, Meral – Language Learning Journal, 2015
This article reports the results of two studies on the vocabulary growth of advanced learners of English as a foreign language in an English-medium degree programme. Growth in learners' written receptive and productive vocabularies was investigated in one cross-sectional and one longitudinal study over three years. The effect of word frequency on…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language), Receptive Language