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Craig-Unkefer, Lesley; Camarata, Stephen – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: Facilitating language development in children with specific language impairment (SLI) who are learning African American English (AAE) as their first dialect requires clinicians to consider grammatical, lexical, and cultural differences. The purpose of this article is to examine 2 intervention methods that have an extensive history of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intervention, Delayed Speech, Language Impairments
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Baumann, James F. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Prior research has shown that vocabulary instruction can enhance the comprehension of passages when instruction includes definitional and contextual information, provides multiple instructional encounters with the words, and requires learners to engage actively in processing of word meanings (M. F. Graves, 1986; S. A. Stahl & M. M. Fairbanks,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition