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Ilter, IIhan – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2019
This study compares the effectiveness of context clue strategy instruction to wide reading practices in terms of their impact on the vocabulary knowledge of students who read at frustration level. The participants were 44 sixth-grade students from a middle grades school. Students were randomly assigned to experimental and control conditions. The…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Vocabulary Development, Cues, Pretests Posttests
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Ibarra Santacruz, Diana; Martínez Ortega, David – HOW, 2018
This study sought to determine how working memory training could contribute to retaining vocabulary studied in English lessons through the implementation of a set of strategies. Two intact groups of beginners: one experimental, with 28 students, and one control group, with 22 students, belonging to undergraduate English as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Short Term Memory
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Eristi, Bahadir; Polat, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2017
This study, which is an experimental research with pre-test and post-test control groups, aims to determine the effectiveness of the Synectics Instructional Model on foreign language vocabulary teaching. The research was conducted with two experimental and two control groups and 82 students taking part in these groups. The experimental application…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness
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Silverman, Rebecca D.; Martin-Beltran, Melinda; Peercy, Megan M.; Hartranft, Anna M.; McNeish, Daniel M.; Artzi, Lauren; Nunn, Stephanie – Elementary School Journal, 2017
This study evaluated the effects of a cross-age peer learning program targeting vocabulary and comprehension in kindergarten and fourth-grade classrooms with substantial proportions of English Learners (ELs). The study followed a quasi-experimental design with 12 classrooms (6 kindergarten and 6 fourth grade) in the intervention group and 12…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Vocabulary Development, Kindergarten, Grade 4
Green, Grace – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study addresses low literacy achievement in students in kindergarten and first grades. The study was designed to help identify how general education teachers can use specific daily research-based oral vocabulary acquisition strategies to close the literacy gap. This quantitative research helped to determine if the implementation of an oral…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Teaching Methods
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Basoz, Tutku; Can, Dilek Tüfekci – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2016
Semiotics has recently achieved some prominence as a theoretical foundation for foreign language learning/teaching. Though there have been a number of research on the semiotics in foreign language learning, the practical use of semiotics in preschool classroom environment still remains unanswered. What is more, the effectiveness of computers on…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Computer Uses in Education
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Crosson, Amy C.; Moore, Debra – Reading Psychology, 2017
A majority of the challenging words that adolescent readers encounter in school texts are morphologically complex and from the Latinate layer of English. For these words, bound roots carry important meaning, such as the relation between innovative and its bound root, nov, meaning "new." This study investigated the effects of instruction…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, High School Students, Intervention
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Urun, Mehmet Faith; Aksoy, Hasan; Comez, Rasim – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2017
This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a Kinect-based game called Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to investigate possible contributions of game-based learning in a virtual language classroom at a state university in Ankara, Turkey. A quasi-experimental design where the treatment group (N= 26) was subjected to kinect-based…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Games, Foreign Countries
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Hennebry, Mairin; Rogers, Vivienne; Macaro, Ernesto; Murphy, Victoria – Language Learning Journal, 2017
This paper reports a study comparing the effects of vocabulary instruction on recognition and recall through provision of either an L1 equivalent or an L2 (French) definition. Instruction was in the context of a focus-on-meaning listening activity. The study employed a quasi-experimental design, involving 262 Year 9 learners of French in seven…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, French
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Ismaiel, Nasrah Mahmoud; Al Asmari, AbdulRahman Awadh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The study of vocabulary can be considered a chief issue which the second language students encounter within the learning of another language especially, for non-English major students. This study aims at assessing the influence of a suggested program for enhancing EFL students` vocabulary and vocabulary learning strategies use. The sample of this…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lai, Arthur – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Immersion has been an acclaimed approach for second-language acquisition, but is not available to most students. The idea of this study was to create a mobile immersion environment on a smartphone using a mobile instant messenger, WhatsApp™. Forty-five Form-1 (7th grade) students divided into the Mobile Group and Control Group participated in a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods
Roux, Catherine; Dion, Eric; Barrette, Anne – Canadian Journal of Education, 2015
Reading with comprehension is a challenge for students with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Unfortunately, research has little to offer to teachers trying to help these students. The present study pilots a new intervention targeting vocabulary, main idea identification, anaphoric relations, and text structure. Students (N = 13, M…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention
Önem, E. E. – Online Submission, 2015
This study aimed to find whether meditation can be effective in terms of anxiety and vocabulary learning in a foreign language learning context. To test this, an experimental pre-test and post-test study was designed. 61 students (14 male-47 female) from the English Language Teaching Department of a state university in Turkey were assigned into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Anxiety, Vocabulary Development
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Ilter, Ilhan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of three graphic organizers for teaching vocabulary and the development of the emotions-related to achievement. The study focused on the effects of different types of graphic organizers on word-learning and various emotions in social studies. This study was designed as a…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Vocabulary Development, Emotional Response, Social Studies
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Singh, Manesha Kaur Rajendra; Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar; Eng, Lin Siew – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Speaking is an important skill that needs to be mastered as it is the best way to communicate with other people in order to deliver opinions and express ideas, but the fact is that secondary school students' ability in speaking English is low in Malaysia. It is caused by several factors such as lack of vocabulary, poor pronunciation, weak grammar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Secondary School Students
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