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Dennis Laffey – English Teaching, 2024
This paper presents data capturing Korean university students' familiarity with English online acronyms, examines factors that may predict this familiarity, and presents an explicit instruction intervention involving vocabulary knowledge of online acronyms. The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) measured students' vocabulary size, while a self-report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, Vocabulary Development
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Burt, Clark; Graham, Lorraine; Hoang, Thuong – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Students with mild intellectual disabilities need explicit vocabulary instruction with multiple exposures in different contexts and extra practice in associating meanings to unfamiliar words to build their word knowledge. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of multimedia-based computer assisted instruction on learning the meanings…
Descriptors: Mild Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Vocabulary Development, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Jozwik, Sara L.; Freeman-Green, Shaqwana; Kaczorowski, Tara L.; Douglas, Karen H. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
In this study, researchers evaluated the effects of peer-assisted multimedia vocabulary instruction, which was designed to address the goal of building knowledge of discipline-specific definitions of language arts terminology for six ninth-grade English Language Learners (ELLs) with or at-risk for learning disabilities. To evaluate the effects of…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Vocabulary Development, Intervention, English Language Learners
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Rivera, Christopher J.; Wood, Charles L.; Spooner, Fred – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2012
Schools across the country are inadequately prepared to meet the educational needs of English language learners (ELLs), much less the needs of ELLs who also have an intellectual disability (ID). In this exploratory study, three Mexican American elementary students with moderate ID were given vocabulary word instruction in English and Spanish using…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Sight Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Spanish