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Wakabayashi, Shigenori – Second Language Research, 2021
This article proposes a novel account for the overuse of free morphemes and underuse of bound morphemes in English as a second language (L2) based on the framework of Distributed Morphology. It will be argued that an Economy Principle 'Do everything in Narrow Syntax (DENS)' operates in the L2 learner's computational system. Consequently,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Vocabulary Development
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Lan, Tian; Jingxia, Liu – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Language, as a tool for people's daily communication, has no gender bias itself. With the development of society, the language has changed correspondingly. Language serve as the mirror of society, inevitably reflecting people's minds or ideology as well as the culture and social conditions of a society. While in English, as the mother tongue of…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Interpersonal Communication, English
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Lederer, Susan Hendler – Young Exceptional Children, 2018
Teaching young children with language delays to say or sign the word "more" has had strong support from the literature since the 1970s (Bloom & Lahey, 1978; Holland, 1975; Lahey & Bloom, 1977; Lederer, 2002). Semantically, teaching children the word/sign "more" is supported by research on early vocabulary development…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Speech Language Pathology, Delayed Speech, Children
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McQuillan, Jeff; Ediger, Warren – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2018
There is considerable evidence that incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading accounts for a large portion of the growth in word knowledge for both first (L1) and second (L2) language acquirers. In this paper, we evaluate the Markov Estimate of Semantic Association (MESA) technique for detecting small, incremental gains in vocabulary…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning, Native Language
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Agustín-Llach, Mª Pilar – TESOL International Journal, 2017
This paper offers a theoretical approach to vocabulary instruction from the evidence provided by lexical errors as the main sources of difficulty in the EFL acquisition process, it reviews previous research and from it suggests new ways of dealing with lexical errors in the classroom. Some practical implications are concluded which rely on lexical…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language)
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Tracey, Diane H. – Education and Urban Society, 2017
Knowing how to provide effective literacy instruction is important for all educators, but it is critically important for urban educators. This article is built on the assumption that deepening urban educators' understanding of the reading process will better equip them to facilitate students' reading development, and to diagnose and intervene if…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Instruction, Urban Teaching, Faculty Development
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Spies, Tracy G.; Dema, Alexandra A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2014
A well-developed academic vocabulary is foundational for understanding academic texts used in elementary and secondary classrooms. In-depth word knowledge is critical to understanding the abstract concepts and complex language structures of text. Students with learning disabilities and English language learners both characteristically have limited…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Special Needs Students, Learning Disabilities, English Language Learners
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Yusifova, Aygun – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The present paper aims to analyze the most inherent features and characteristics of household lexis in English. Special emphasis has been placed on their names of the objects used in everyday life, kitchen utensils, animal and birds. Lexical units concerning ceremonies, habits and traditions are also among the scope of the paper. Moreover, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Teaching Methods
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Sailor, Kevin M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Several recent studies have explored the applicability of the preferential attachment principle to account for vocabulary growth. According to this principle, network growth can be described by a process in which existing nodes recruit new nodes with a probability that is an increasing function of their connectivity within the existing network.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Age, Language Acquisition, Semantics
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Gholami, Javad; Khezrlou, Sima – CATESOL Journal, 2014
This article overviews research on second language vocabulary instruction with a specific focus on semantic and thematic vocabulary-clustering types. The theoretical benefits associated with both the semantic and thematic approaches, as well as the potential problems associated with them, are discussed. The conclusion drawn is that reinforcing the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Instruction
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Elgort, Irina – Language Learning, 2011
This study investigates outcomes of deliberate learning on vocabulary acquisition in a second language (L2). Acquisition of 48 pseudowords was measured using the lexical decision task with visually presented stimuli. The experiments drew on form priming, masked repetition priming, and automatic semantic priming procedures. Data analyses revealed a…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Semantics, Second Language Learning
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Stewart, Jeffrey; Batty, Aaron Olaf; Bovee, Nicholas – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
Second language vocabulary acquisition has been modeled both as multidimensional in nature and as a continuum wherein the learner's knowledge of a word develops along a cline from recognition through production. In order to empirically examine and compare these models, the authors assess the degree to which the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale (VKS;…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Measures (Individuals), Semantics, Vocabulary Development
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Dietrichson, Aleksander – International Journal on E-Learning, 2013
This paper analyzes some current trends in Learning Management System's analytics. It points out that while the analysis of access log patterns -- clickometry--is by far the most common form of analysis available in LMS systems its value is limited at best. Being a measure of behavior in its most basic sense clickometry is best suited for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Handheld Devices
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Saji, Noburo; Imai, Mutsumi; Saalbach, Henrik; Zhang, Yuping; Shu, Hua; Okada, Hiroyuki – Cognition, 2011
This paper explores the process through which children sort out the relations among verbs belonging to the same semantic domain. Using a set of Chinese verbs denoting a range of action events that are labeled by carrying or holding in English as a test case, we looked at how Chinese-speaking 3-, 5-, and 7-year-olds and adults apply 13 different…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Vocabulary Development, Chinese
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Landauer, Thomas K.; Kireyev, Kirill; Panaccione, Charles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
A new metric, Word Maturity, estimates the development by individual students of knowledge of every word in a large corpus. The metric is constructed by Latent Semantic Analysis modeling of word knowledge as a function of the reading that a simulated learner has done and is calibrated by its developing closeness in information content to that of a…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Statistical Analysis
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