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Crosson, Amy C.; McKeown, Margaret G.; Moore, Debra W.; Ye, Feifei – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study investigated the hypothesis that academic vocabulary instruction infused with morphological analysis of bound Latin roots-such as analysis of the relation between innovative and its bound root, nov (meaning "new")-will enhance word learning outcomes for English Learner (EL) adolescents. Latinate words with bound roots comprise…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Academic Language, Vocabulary Development, Latin
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Durrant, Philip; Brenchley, Mark – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This paper aims to advance our understanding of how children's use of vocabulary in writing changes as they progress through their school careers. It examines the extent to which a model of lexical sophistication as use of low-frequency, register-appropriate words adequately captures development in vocabulary use across the course of compulsory…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Word Frequency