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Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David; Sheehy, Kieron – First Language, 2014
This study examines whether books that contain personalized content are better facilitators of young children's word acquisition than books which are not personalized for a child. In a repeated-measures experimental design, 18 children (mean age 3;10) were read a picture book which contained both personalized and non-personalized sections, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Picture Books, Vocabulary Development, Reading Aloud to Others
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Lin, Lu-Chun – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study used a quasi-experimental design to determine the effects of teachers' story read-aloud on EFL elementary school students' word learning outcomes. It specifically examined whether the word learning was enhanced by teachers' repeated story read-aloud and word-meaning explanations and further determined whether the learning outcomes were…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Aloud to Others, Oral Reading, Elementary School Teachers