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Alevli, Ozan – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2020
The purpose of this study is to share the design, implementation, and evaluation processes regarding an activity implemented for improving the vocabulary of 4th grade students, and to determine the opinions of the students about the activity. The activity serves to the purpose of learning the new words and phrases meaningfully through active…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Traxler, Matthew J. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
An eye-movement monitoring experiment investigated readers' response to temporarily ambiguous sentences. The sentences were ambiguous because a relative clause could attach to one of two preceding nouns. Semantic information disambiguated the sentences. Working memory considerations predict an overall preference for the second of the two nouns, as…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Semantics, Nouns, Figurative Language