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Crosson, Amy C.; McKeown, Margaret G.; Robbins, Kelly P.; Brown, Kathleen J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: In this clinical focus article, the authors argue for robust vocabulary instruction with emergent bilingual learners both in inclusive classroom settings and in clinical settings for emergent bilinguals with language and literacy disorders. Robust vocabulary instruction focuses on high-utility academic words that carry abstract meanings…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Bilingualism, Inclusion, Teaching Methods
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed. – 1983
At irregular intervals, beginning in 1977, Swedish-Finnish conferences on contrastive and applied linguistics have been arranged in Stockholm and Turko/Abo. This volume presents most of the papers given at the 1982 conference. Papers include: "Free Recall of Mixed Language Lists. Error Patterns in Bilingual Memory" (Karin Aronsson, Anja Metsola,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication Skills, Comprehension, Error Patterns
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Marco, Maria Jose Luzon – Applied Linguistics, 1999
Explores the function of items of procedural vocabulary as signals of conceptual relations in scientific discourse. Procedural vocabulary consists of lexical items that do not belong to any particular schema. Develops a taxonomy of procedural items in terms of the contextual relations they create between content-bearing words, classifying the…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Lexicology, Sciences
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1988
Using a study of 30 Danish freshman college students' vocabularies as a springboard, this paper explores and discusses a number of current assumptions about vocabularies in the mother tongue and in foreign language pedagogics. The paper contends that it is logical to assume that vocabularies in reading are fluid and depend on the text read, on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Tests, Reading Processes