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Li, Jia; Ji, Linying; Deng, Qizhen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
Despite the growing body of technology-assisted vocabulary intervention studies, few have addressed learning outcomes beyond target vocabulary and the interaction between the interventions and English language learners' (ELLs) initially different levels of vocabulary knowledge. The study examined the differential effects of a texting-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English Language Learners, Vocabulary Development
Eghbaria-Ghanamah, Hazar; Ghanamah, Rafat; Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin; Adi-Japha, Esther; Karni, Avi – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Oral language proficiency in kindergarten can facilitate the acquisition of reading and writing. However, in diglossic languages, like Arabic, the large gap between the spoken and the formal, modern standard (MSA) varieties of the language may restrict the benefits of oral language proficiency to subsequent literacy skills. Here, we tested, in a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Kindergarten
Hettiarachchi, Shyamani; Ranaweera, Mahishi – Deafness & Education International, 2019
The lack of early identification, suboptimal language stimulation and limited remedial services in Sri Lanka for children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing place them at-risk of language delay. The reality for many preschool and primary school children entering formal education in Sri Lanka is a language delay in spoken language and/or sign language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Language Impairments
Ikonta, Nonye R.; Ugonna, Nwannediuto C. – African Educational Research Journal, 2015
One of the factors that indicate success in English as Second Language (ESL) classrooms is the proficiency of students in oral communication as a foundation for other language skills. The focus of language education in the 21st Century has moved from traditional knowledge of linguistic forms to using language and cultural knowledge as a means to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction
Strasser, Katherine; Mendive, Susana; Vergara, Daniela; Darricades, Michelle – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study evaluated the impact of a self-monitoring intervention on preschool teachers' use of language and on children's language growth. Nineteen classrooms from Santiago de Chile participated (10 intervention, 9 control). Twice a week, intervention teachers filled out a checklist to monitor the language stimulation they…
Descriptors: Self Management, Intervention, Preschool Teachers, Language Usage
Baker, Doris Luft; Mogna, Vivianne; Rodriguez, Sandra; Farmer, Dylan; Yovanoff, Paul – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2016
We conducted two studies to examine the effects of an interactive read aloud and vocabulary intervention on the vocabulary knowledge of Spanish-speaking preschoolers living in the U.S. In Study 1, 68 children (n = 34 in the treatment group) and 6 parents in the treatment group received the intervention in Spanish at home, and in Spanish and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Hispanic American Students, Reading Aloud to Others, Vocabulary
Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Saenz, Laura; Resendez, Nora; Kwok, Oiman; Zhu, Leina; Davis, Heather – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study compared the effects of content-based shared book-reading instruction versus an explicit vocabulary-only condition on the vocabulary development of preschool dual language learners (DLLs). Using shared book reading as the mode of instruction, we randomly assigned 48 bilingual preschool teachers and 281…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Bilingual Teachers
St. John, Pip; Vance, Maggie – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
Research indicates that a significant number of children enter primary school with insufficient vocabulary knowledge. This study investigates whether a small group daily word learning programme delivered by the class teacher can improve word learning in young children. Eighteen children, aged five to six years, with English as an additional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Program Effectiveness
Johanna Cena; Doris Luft Baker; Edward J. Kame'enui; Scott K. Baker; Yonghan Park; Keith Smolkowski – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study examined the impact of a 15-min daily explicit vocabulary intervention in Spanish on expressive and receptive vocabulary knowledge and oral reading fluency in Spanish, and on language proficiency in English. Fifty Spanish-speaking English learners who received 90 min of Spanish reading instruction in an early transition model were…
Descriptors: Spanish, Intervention, Expressive Language, Receptive Language
Nagy, William; Townsend, Dianna – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
There is a growing awareness of the importance of academic vocabulary, and more generally, of academic language proficiency, for students' success in school. There is also a growing body of research on the nature of the demands that academic language places on readers and writers, and on interventions to help students meet these demands. In this…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English for Academic Purposes, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language