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Duangkamon Klungthong; Punchalee Wasanasomsithi – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Academic vocabulary is necessary for university students. Vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) assist students to enhance their vocabulary knowledge and should be examined in accordance with their dynamic nature (Gu, 2020). Dynamic assessment (DA) is considered an alternative assessment that simultaneously and systematically assesses and teaches…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Vocabulary Development, Academic Language, Second Language Learning
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Kehoe, Margaret; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Friend, Margaret – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated within-language and between-language associations between phonological memory, vocabulary, and grammar in French-English (n = 43) and Spanish-English (n = 25) bilingual children at 30, 36, and 48 months. It was predicted that phonological memory would display both within-language and between-language relations to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
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Segers, Eliane; Takke, Lianne; Verhoeven, Ludo – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2004
The study explored differences in story comprehension and vocabulary learning in children in native and multicultural kindergarten classrooms when listening to a story read to them by the computer or the teacher. The results showed that children (41 native and 30 immigrant) learned new words, both from listening to their teacher and from listening…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Vocabulary Development, Immigrants, Comprehension
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Fletcher, Paul; Chan, Cathy W.-Y.; Wong, Peony T.-T.; Stokes, Stephanie; Tardif, Twila; Leung, Shirley C.-S. – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
Data from the Cantonese Communicative Development Inventory (CCDI) is used to review the phonological preferences of younger (16-22 months) and older (23-30 month) groups of children in the lexical items they are reported to be able to say. Analogous results to those found for English emerge from the Cantonese data: the younger group display…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Acquisition, Measures (Individuals), Vocabulary Development
Pressley, Michael; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Results of five experiments in which adults and children were exposed to two study strategies for vocabulary learning: (1) repetition of words with meanings and (2) associative elaboration (the keyword method). Subjects were asked to choose one of the two study methods for learning a 24-item list of new vocabulary words. (SL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Tests
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Hansson, K.; Forsberg, J.; Lofqvist, A.; Maki-Torkko, E.; Sahlen, B. – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2004
Background: Working memory is considered to influence a range of linguistic skills, i.e. vocabulary acquisition, sentence comprehension and reading. Several studies have pointed to limitations of working memory in children with specific language impairment. Few studies, however, have explored the role of working memory for language deficits in…
Descriptors: Phonology, Testing, Vocabulary Development, Short Term Memory