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Cervetti, Gina N.; Fitzgerald, Miranda S.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Hebert, Michael – Reading Psychology, 2023
We report on a meta-analysis designed to test the theory that instruction that involves direct teaching of academic vocabulary and teaching strategies to determine the meaning of unknown words develops students' abilities to infer new words' meanings and builds students' overall vocabulary knowledge. We meta-analyzed 39 experimental and…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Direct Instruction
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Salihoglu, Umut M.; Yalçin, Isil – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
The present study aimed to construct the piloting phase of a more extensive investigation on the effectiveness of the keyword technique, rote memorisation and semantic mapping as vocabulary learning methods in word retention rates of 16 third-grade pre-service teachers studying at English Language Teaching Department of a large Turkish university.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers
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Ratima Tianchai; Suthathip Thirakunkovit; Songsri Soranasataporn – rEFLections, 2024
This research explored the effectiveness of using the word network technique to teach English vocabulary to first graders in Thai Primary schools. The 150 top-frequency words used in three nationally-used textbooks were inventoried. The list of the words then was compared with the list proposed by the Ministry of Education, Thailand. The combined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes
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Pei-Lin Liu; Chiu-Jung Chen; Hsiao-Chen Chen – SAGE Open, 2024
This paper proposes a personalized teaching strategy based on Total Physical Response (TPR) to acquire new words. TPR combines target language items with semantically corresponding gestures conducive to learners understanding and memorizing them by repeatedly executing commands from their teachers. One limitation of TPR is that it does not allow…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Zhongling Pi; Fangfang Zhu; Yi Zhang; Jiumin Yang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Instructional videos for teaching second language (L2) vocabulary often feature an instructor onscreen. The instructor in the video may involuntarily produce beat gestures with their hands, as occurs in real teaching settings. Beat gestures highlight key information in speech by conveying the rhythm of the language, but do not themselves convey…
Descriptors: Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Casper J. D. Jensen; Teresa Cadierno – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The number of learners seeking to acquire an L2 by means of apps is ever-increasing. This study examined the effectiveness of using the app "Mondly" for the acquisition of L2 English vocabulary while accounting for differences in the acquisition of receptive and productive aspects of word knowledge. Twelve Danish young learners (aged…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Correlation, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Alqraini, Faisl M.; Paul, Peter V. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
Building vocabulary knowledge, especially breadth and depth of word meanings, is a crucial step in assisting students to read and comprehend print independently. A large body of research has documented the low reading achievement levels of a number of Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. The goal of the present study was to examine the effects…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Instructional Effectiveness
Samira M. Edres – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the effects of three subtitle conditions on English vocabulary learning, form recognition and meaning recall, from TED Talks videos while controlling for vocabulary size and initial knowledge of the target words. The participants, 105 Libyan students (16 males and 89 females) at intermediate English proficiency level, were…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rice, Caitlin A.; Tokowicz, Natasha – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This review examines and integrates studies of second language (L2) vocabulary instruction with adult learners in a laboratory setting, using a framework provided by a modified version of the Revised Hierarchical Model (Kroll & Stewart, 1994), the Revised Hierarchical Model-Repetition Elaboration Retrieval. By examining how various training…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Semantics
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Duff, Dawna – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: Vocabulary intervention should be guided by information from outcome measures that demonstrate whether the student has grown in depth or breadth of understanding of the taught words. However, there is a paucity of tools, to measure depth of vocabulary knowledge, that are available for clinical use. Method: The challenges of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Outcome Measures
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M. Stratton, James – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Although English and German are both Germanic languages, due to various historical changes, many of their cognates are no longer easily recognizable. This study examined whether knowledge of language history can be beneficial to learners when learning English-German cognates. Thirty-five English-speaking second language (L2) learners of…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
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Vakilifard, Amirreza; Bahramlou, Khosro; Mousavian, Moslem – Cogent Education, 2020
Acquiring L2 Persian vocabulary is the main hurdle for foreign students who wish to pursue academic studies in Iranian universities. This study explored the effect of the cooperative learning approach and semantic mapping strategy on the acquisition of L2 Persian vocabulary. The study had a quasi-experimental design and included a control group…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Cooperative Learning, Semantics, Concept Mapping
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Namaziandost, Ehsan; Rezvani, Ehsan; Polemikou, Anna – Cogent Education, 2020
In this study, 92 Iranian intermediate EFL learners (17 to 22 years) took part in 14 sessions in which they were taught L2 vocabulary through three input enhancements, i.e., visual input enhancement, semantic input enhancement, and input flooding. In fact, the selected participants were divided into three experimental groups and one control group.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pretests Posttests
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Gray, Susan H. – Adult Literacy Education, 2019
The goal of this pilot study was to investigate the effects of morphological instruction on component literacy skills of adult struggling readers. Sixteen adults, most with decoding and encoding deficits, were randomly assigned to tutoring in either morpheme or syllable analysis to learn academic vocabulary and increase component literacy skills.…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Adult Literacy
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Riyanto – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2019
Mathematics and Indonesian Language are subjects that are considered difficult by students in Indonesia. In addition, students are also considered less creative. One way to solve this problem is to apply the game in learning. For this reason, a game that can solve the problem needs to be designed. The game that is hypothesized to improve math,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition
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