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Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Dickinson, David K. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
The present study examines the perceptual, linguistic, and social cues that were associated with preschoolers' (4;11) growth in word-learning during shared book-reading and guided play activities. Small groups of three preschoolers (n = 30) and one adult were video-recorded during an intervention study in which new vocabulary words were explicitly…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Correlation, Play
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Senechal, Monique – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Evaluates the effect of didactic techniques used during storybook reading on young children's acquisition of new vocabulary introduced in storybooks under three reading conditions: single-reading; repeated-reading and questioning. Findings suggest that didactic techniques used by adults have differential effects on preschoolers' receptive and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Models