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Manoochehr Jafarigohar; Hoda Divsar; Parisa Etemad – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This cross-sectional study aimed to explore the nature and the patterns of lexical growth in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and non-CLIL learners across three successive academic years. To pursue the purpose of the study a total of 110 female students of six classes in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades in both bilingual and monolingual…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Females
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Eden, Sigal; Shmila, Livnat – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
The study investigates the effect of hybrid technology (HT), which combine physical objects and virtual effects, on learning receptive-vocabulary in English as a foreign-language (EFL) among students with dyslexia. Participants included 106 students aged 9-12. The students with dyslexia were randomly divided into intervention groups that used…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Blended Learning, Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development
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Anne Barwasser; Karolina Urton; Turid Knaak; Matthias Grünke – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The increasing number of students with German as a second language (GL2) poses a great challenge for schools. Previous studies showed that especially young learners with a migration background are lagging behind in the acquisition of second language (L2) literacy. Experiencing problem behaviors (PB) in addition, might pose even greater challenges.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Porter, Alison – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This study investigated the systematic and principled teaching of foreign language (FL) literacy in two young learner classrooms in England. Over the course of 23 weeks, two classes of 9-11 year olds (N = 45) learned spoken and written language through an integrated pedagogy. The underpinning rationale was to explore principled ways of teaching FL…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, French
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Butler, Yuko Goto – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This study examines young English readers' ability to infer word meanings in context and to use metacognitive knowledge for constructing word meanings in relation to their reading performance. The participants were 61 fourth-grade students in the United States, comprising 24 monolingual English-speaking (ME) students and 37…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
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Gallego, Melania Terrazas; Llach, Maria del Pilar Agustin – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
This paper tracks the increase in the overall word reception knowledge of 224 young pupils in their 4th, 5th and 6th grades of primary education and in their 1st year of secondary education (7th grade), who learn EFL in a formal context. The 2,000 word frequency band of The Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, Schmitt and Clapham, 2001, version 2) is…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Knowledge Level, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency