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Ismo T. Koponen; Karoliina Vuola; Maija Nousiainen – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2024
We analyze here how pre-service teachers explicate their views about the wave-particle duality of photons and what role it plays in their arguments supporting the quantum nature of light. The data for the analysis is provided by 12 written reports about the double-slit experiment with feeble light. The analysis is based on constructing semantic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Physics, Knowledge Level
Erica Nguyen; Heather McMaster – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
Ambiguity of language can form a barrier to understanding mathematical concepts. The word 'capacity' is problematic as it holds a variety of meanings and might not be understood in school mathematics, to be an aspect of volume. We investigated pre-service primary school teachers' interpretations of 'capacity' when given the definitions of 'volume'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Education
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Gellert, Anna S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The first purpose of this study was to investigate how children's knowledge of taught words and transfer words assessed 10 months after a morphological vocabulary intervention can be predicted by means of language measures taken before the intervention. The second purpose was to investigate whether and how immediate post-intervention…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages), Intervention
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Paz Suárez-Coalla; Carmen Hevia-Tuero; Cristina Martínez-García; Olivia Afonso – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Spelling acquisition requires the assimilation of the regularities of the writing system, but these regularities may differ between the native and a foreign language. English spelling acquisition is a challenge for Spanish-speaking children due to differences in the orthographic systems. The aim of this study was to examine to what…
Descriptors: Spelling, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes
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Davidson, Sean J.; O'Connor, Rollanda E. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2019
Many English language learners (ELL) experience academic and reading difficulties compared to native English speakers (NES). Lack of vocabulary knowledge is a contributing factor for these difficulties. Teaching students to analyze words into their constituent morphemes (meaningful word units) in order to determine the meaning of words may be an…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Knowledge Level, Intervention, Morphemes
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Dong, Yang; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Wu, Sammy Xiao-ying; Zhou, Jian-Dong; Zhao, Ya Man – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
Word semantic knowledge (WSK) is crucial to the development of one's reading comprehension ability. A total of 608 students (208 poor readers in the experimental group and 200 poor readers in the control group one, and 200 typical readers in control group 2) from grade 4 participated in this study. Selected reading ability assessments were…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Semantics
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Crosson, Amy C.; Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Blanchette, Frances; Thomas, Carolyn – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
Multiple-meaning words may pose acute challenges to young learners, especially those who speak a home language other than English. The goal of this study was to investigate Emergent Bilinguals' (EBs) knowledge about words that convey both specific mathematical meanings as well as everyday meanings (e.g., the "volume" of a triangular…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Mathematics, Vocabulary, English Language Learners
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Cartwright, Kelly B.; Taboada Barber, Ana; Archer, Casey J. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
Purpose: Math word problem solving, a form of reading comprehension, is complicated by mathematical lexical ambiguity (e.g., the word "difference" can mean "dissimilarity" in everyday discourse but "the answer in a subtraction problem" in math). This study examined the role of mathematical lexical ambiguity in math…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Executive Function, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving
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Choubsaz, Yassaman; Gheitury, Amer – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The present study aims to explore the semantic knowledge of a group of Iranian deaf individuals who, due mainly to auditory deprivation did not acquire language normally in early years of their life. The participants were ten deaf and a matched number of hearing individuals as control group. A test of five tasks was administrated to assess their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Sixty-eight undergraduate translation students received direct instruction in the features of news headlines and news stories. A week later, they took a test that required them to identify the syntactic and lexical features of a sample of news headlines and news stories, supply deleted word, and substitute punctuation marks, infinitives, and block…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hartin, Travis L.; Stevenson, Colleen M.; Merriman, William E. – Language Learning and Development, 2016
The ability to judge the limits of one's own knowledge may play an important role in knowledge acquisition. The current study tested the prediction that preschoolers would judge the limits of their lexical knowledge more accurately if they were first exposed to a few objects of contrasting familiarity. Such preexposure was hypothesized to increase…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Young Children, Knowledge Level, Learning
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Lowe, Hilary; Joffe, Victoria – Support for Learning, 2017
Vocabulary knowledge has been shown to be a predictor of academic success, posing a challenge for children and young people with language disorder. Language disorder can persist into adolescence and yet there is limited evidence on how to support the vocabulary skills of adolescents with language disorder in a mainstream setting. This article…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Language Impairments, Vocabulary, Intervention
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Li, Hong; Dronjic, Vedran; Chen, Xi; Li, Yixun; Cheng, Yahua; Wu, Xinchun – Journal of Child Language, 2017
This study investigates the contributions of semantic, phonological, and orthographic factors to morphological awareness of 413 Chinese-speaking students in Grades 2, 4, and 6, and its relationship with reading comprehension. Participants were orally presented with pairs of bimorphemic compounds and asked to judge whether the first morphemes of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Semantics, Phonology, Orthographic Symbols
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Feng, Mingyu, Ed.; Käser, Tanja, Ed.; Talukdar, Partha, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
The Indian Institute of Science is proud to host the fully in-person sixteenth iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) during July 11-14, 2023. EDM is the annual flagship conference of the International Educational Data Mining Society. The theme of this year's conference is "Educational data mining for…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Cheating
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Deane, Paul; Lawless, René R.; Li, Chen; Sabatini, John; Bejar, Isaac I.; O'Reilly, Tenaha – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
We expect that word knowledge accumulates gradually. This article draws on earlier approaches to assessing depth, but focuses on one dimension: richness of semantic knowledge. We present results from a study in which three distinct item types were developed at three levels of depth: knowledge of common usage patterns, knowledge of broad topical…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Test Items, Language Tests, Semantics
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