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Hunt, Meghan; Feng, Jay – Online Submission, 2016
This is a report of a professional development project. The purpose of the project was to provide professional development to teachers in vocabulary instructional strategies and to examine vocabulary acquisition of English language learners. The participants were 8 second grade ELL students and 6 second grade teachers. The eight second grade…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Vocabulary Development, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Önem, E. E. – Online Submission, 2015
This study aimed to find whether meditation can be effective in terms of anxiety and vocabulary learning in a foreign language learning context. To test this, an experimental pre-test and post-test study was designed. 61 students (14 male-47 female) from the English Language Teaching Department of a state university in Turkey were assigned into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Anxiety, Vocabulary Development
Gafoor, K. Abdul; Greeshma, K. – Online Submission, 2014
In the context of growing empirical evidence to lack of clear understanding of the language of the science content, undesirable student outcomes including difficulty in learning science and a lack of interest with their science content area, and chemistry being particularly loaded with specialized terminology of its own, this study analyzed the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Chemistry, Textbook Content
D'Alesio, Rosemary; Scalia, Maureen T.; Zabel, Renee M. – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this action research project was to improve student vocabulary acquisition through a multisensory, direct instructional approach. The study involved three teachers and a target population of 73 students in second and seventh grade classrooms. The intervention was implemented from September through December of 2006 and analyzed in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 7, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2008
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) freshman students at the College of Languages and Translation received direct instruction in adjective-forming suffixes, then they took an immediate and a delayed test. Error analysis showed that 36% of the responses were left blank or the subjects duplicated the stimulus word. In 32% they mismatched the word…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Late Adolescents, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Akbulut, Yavuz – Online Submission, 2007
Factors predicting vocabulary learning and reading comprehension of advanced language learners of English in a linear multimedia text were investigated in the current study. Predictor variables of interest were multimedia type, reading proficiency, learning styles, topic interest and background knowledge about the topic. The outcome variables of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Languages, Definitions, Predictor Variables