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Rassaei, Ehsan – Language Learning Journal, 2023
The present study investigated the effects of text-based and audio-based dynamic glosses on L2 vocabulary learning within a sociocultural approach. Dynamic glosses were operationalised as a set of incrementally ordered prompts, provided during text-based and audio-based interactions that guided the participants to identify the meaning of unknown…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation
Shore, Jane R.; Sabatini, John – Educational Testing Service, 2009
The issue of identifying reading difficulties and disabilities in English language learners (ELLs) is a complex one. It is an area that draws on the diverse disciplines of first- and second-language acquisition, literacy, English language learning, and reading, including differences and disabilities research. This literature review aims to…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Elementary Secondary Education, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Nippold, Marilyn A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
This article discusses word definitions within the context of language development in school-age children and adolescents. It explains the importance of the ability to define words, reviews the growth of word definition during school years, describes standardized tests, and offers suggestions for expanding the normative database for word…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education