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Gellert, Anna S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The first purpose of this study was to investigate how children's knowledge of taught words and transfer words assessed 10 months after a morphological vocabulary intervention can be predicted by means of language measures taken before the intervention. The second purpose was to investigate whether and how immediate post-intervention…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages), Intervention
Teng, Mark Feng – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Despite the potential of captioned videos, limited attention has been paid to the role of vocabulary knowledge (VK) and working memory (WM) in incidental vocabulary learning under different captioning conditions. Objectives: The present study aimed to bridge this gap by assessing VK and WM in incidental vocabulary learning under…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Video Technology
Chan, Yi-Chih – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore the contributions of phonological awareness (PA) and morphological awareness (MA) to the reading comprehension skills of Chinese-speaking children with hearing loss (HL) and examine the possible mediation effect of vocabulary knowledge on the relationships of PA and MA with their reading comprehension. Method:…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Chinese, Metalinguistics, Vocabulary
Chin-Hsi Lin; Keyi Zhou; Fangzhou Jin; Wai Ming Cheung – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Prior studies have reported positive outcomes of technology-enhanced vocabulary learning and recommended self-regulated learning (SRL) as a design principle for the relevant technologies. However, there has not hitherto been any comprehensive study of the combined use of SRL and specific vocabulary-learning strategies in technology-enhanced…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies, Self Management, Educational Technology
Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Hui, Anna Na-Na; Li, Zhen; Dong, Yang – Language Teaching Research, 2023
As an effective teaching approach that allows teachers and students to interact collaboratively and actively build on each other's ideas, dialogic teaching can enhance classroom engagement and learning outcomes. This study addresses the use of dialogic teaching for improving English language learning among Chinese children with varied levels of…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grade 1
Austin, Christy R.; Vaughn, Sharon; Clemens, Nathan H.; Pustejovsky, James E.; Boucher, Alexis N. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
This within-subjects experimental study investigated the relative effects of word reading and word meaning instruction (WR+WM) compared to word-reading instruction alone (WR) on the accuracy, fluency, and word meaning knowledge of 4th-5th graders with dyslexia. We matched word lists on syllables, phonemes, frequency, number of definitions, and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Accuracy
Heather Hildenbrand – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students from high-poverty environments often exhibit lower vocabulary levels compared to their higher socioeconomic peers. Addressing this vocabulary gap is crucial for their academic success. This ethnographic case study explores the effectiveness of the Vocabulary Self Selection strategy in motivating fourth-grade students from high poverty…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Disadvantaged Environment, Poverty
James S. Kim; Joshua B. Gilbert; Jackie E. Relyea; Patrick Rich; Ethan Scherer; Mary A. Burkhauser; Johanna N. Tvedt – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
We investigated the effectiveness of a sustained and spiraled content literacy intervention that emphasizes building domain and topic knowledge schemas and vocabulary for elementary-grade students. The Model of Reading Engagement (MORE) intervention underscores thematic lessons that provide an intellectual structure for helping students connect…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Jason D'Alesio – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Fluency, vocabulary building, making inferences, expanding background knowledge, and metacognitive thinking are reading skills taught in schools across the country. Which of these do ELA teachers consider to be most important? It is not known which of these five areas Western Pennsylvania teachers believe has the most impact on comprehension…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Elementary School Teachers
Hashim, Mega Suria; Said, Ismail – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2021
Outdoor activities can harness children's personal and social abilities differently than indoor activities. Children experience a variety of words associated with science learning through smelling, feeling, and tasting. The direct contact with nature and vegetation is the point where children's communication ability is harnessed as they begin to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Outdoor Education, Science Instruction, Natural Resources
Sharon Vaughn; Elizabeth Swanson; Anna-Mari Fall; Greg Roberts; Philip Capin; Elizabeth A. Stevens; Alicia A. Stewart – Grantee Submission, 2022
This study reports the effects of a distributed professional development model emphasizing reading comprehension and vocabulary practices in social studies on the content knowledge, vocabulary, and reading comprehension outcomes of upper elementary students identified as English learners (ELs). Schools were randomly assigned to one of three…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Social Studies, Elementary School Students
Sharon Vaughn; Elizabeth Swanson; Anna-Maria Fall; Greg Roberts; Philip Capin; Elizabeth A. Stevens; Alicia A. Stewart – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
This study reports the effects of a distributed professional development model emphasizing reading comprehension and vocabulary practices in social studies on the content knowledge, vocabulary, and reading comprehension outcomes of upper elementary students identified as English learners (ELs). Schools were randomly assigned to one of three…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Social Studies, Elementary School Students
Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Dickinson, David K. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
The importance of early vocabulary development to later reading comprehension has been well-established. However, there have been a number of criticisms that the assessments typically used to measure oral vocabulary knowledge do not adequately capture the complexity of this construct. This conceptual review works towards a more robust theoretical…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Manyak, Patrick; Blachowicz, Camile L. Z.; Graves, Michael F. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2021
This article reports on a 3-year formative experiment involving the implementation and testing of a long-term, multifaceted vocabulary instruction program in fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms in three demographically distinct schools. The quantitative findings indicate that the students, across the 3 years of the project, showed accelerated…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Formative Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Swanson, Elizabeth; Vaughn, Sharon; Fall, Anna-Maria; Stevens, Elizabeth A.; Stewart, Alicia A.; Capin, Philip; Roberts, Greg – Exceptional Children, 2021
This study examined the differential effects of Strategies for Reading Informational Text and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE) on the vocabulary, reading comprehension, and content learning among 4,757 fourth-grade students with and without disabilities. Schools were assigned to one of three conditions: researcher-supported professional development…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Students with Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills