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The Effect of Pre-Reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers' Eye Movements
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Pellicer-Sánchez, Ana; Conklin, Kathy; Vilkaite-Lozdiene, Laura – Language Learning, 2021
This study examined the effect of pre-reading vocabulary instruction on learners' attention and vocabulary learning. We randomly assigned participants (L1 = 92; L2 = 88) to one of four conditions: pre-reading instruction, where participants' received explicit instruction on six novel items and read a text with the items repeated eight times;…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Comparative Analysis
Can Ivan Help Johnny?
Ungaro, Daniel – Elementary English, 1974
The rich oral language experiences given children in Russian preschools and primary schools accounts for their subsequent success in reading. (JH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Experience, Kindergarten, Language Acquisition
Language Development Factors Related to Reading Development.
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Athey, Irene – Journal of Educational Research, 1983
This paper analyzes: (1) the task of learning to read, in the context of cognitive and linguistic tools a child has at his/her disposal; (2) how these tools change with further development and experience; and (3) how teachers can foster this development and growth. Eight research-based recommendations for classroom teaching are given. (PP)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education
The Development of Language and Reading in the Young Child.
Pflaum, Susanna Whitney – 1974
As a reference for future teachers and for those already working in the field of early childhood education, this book presents information about young children's language development, emphasizing language as the primary basis for reading acquisition. In the first section of the book, language growth during preschool years is explored, with…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Teacher Educator Learns from 1st- and 2nd-Grade Readers and Writers.
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Raines, Shirley C. – Childhood Education, 1986
Shares the experiences of a teacher educator who, upon teaching language arts every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon for a year, observed numerous reading and writing language experiences. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Literacy
Kindergartners Begin to Read Their Own Compositions: Beginning Readers' Developing Knowledges about Written Language Project. Final Report.
Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1981
This report gives a history of the 1979-80 segment of a continuing project that is designed to provide a theoretically based description of children's transition from prereading to reading, along with tools that teachers may use to assess children's emerging literacy abilities. The first chapter provides an introduction to the project, while the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Elementary Education, Fantasy
Emergent Literacy: Writing and Reading. Writing Research: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into the Nature of Writing Series.
Teale, William H., Ed.; Sulzby, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1986
Focusing on the not-yet-conventional ways in which young children write and read--their nature, contexts, and significance for continuing literacy development, this book presents the perspective that children's early reading and writing behaviors are not pre- anything, but are integral parts of an incipient language process. Following an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading