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Peer reviewedNagy, William E.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1987
Study investigated incidental learning of word meanings from context during normal reading. Effects of word and text properties were examined in detail. Small but reliable gains in knowledge were found at all grade levels and ability levels tested. (RB)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Download full textMcKeown, Margaret Gentile – 1986
A study proposed a sequenced process for inferring word meaning from context in order to investigate experimentally where, within the process, differences between learners of varying skill occur, and to discover the kinds of information students need in order to acquire vocabulary most effectively. Six five-step tasks, each designed around an…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Associative Learning, Classroom Research, Context Clues
Peer reviewedSurridge, Marie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
If Anglophone students are to read French at an adult level, they must not only acquire a selected small vocabulary but also be trained to interpret words creatively within a context in order to use their vocabulary. Instruction should include exercises to foster this creativity. (MSE)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries
Williams, Ray – ESP Journal, 1985
Justifies the teaching of vocabulary recognition strategies from vocabulary development exercises and reviews five such strategies. These strategies are: (1) inferring from context, (2) identifying lexical familiarization, (3) unchaining nominal compounds, (4) synonym search, and (5) word analysis. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Context Clues, English for Special Purposes, Language Processing
Peer reviewedRosenthal, Alan S. – French Review, 1987
A university second language program using associative learning and context to enhance retention of words, expressions, and structures is described. Observed results of this situational approach are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs, Context Clues
Peer reviewedHowell, Helen – Reading Teacher, 1987
Outlines diverse strategies (contextual clues, palindromes, figurative language/idioms, etc.) for increasing vocabulary skills of gifted readers in the lower primary grades, using children's literature to supplement good tradebooks. (NKA)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Associative Learning, Childrens Literature, Context Clues
Standal, Timothy C.; Schaefer, Christine C. – 1978
To be successful, a vocabulary improvement program should teach vocabulary directly but in a meaningful context, involve teachers and use vocabulary from all content areas, and represent a long term commitment. Strategies promoting an effective program include the following: (1) teaching word consciousness, (2) using materials at students'…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Educational Objectives
Lomangino, Heide R. – 1986
If a student is to develop reading comprehension, he must possess and activate a number of linguistic and cognitive skills. He comes to the text with certain expectations and uses a cyclical process of sampling, predicting, testing, and confirming to understand it. The overall goal of reading instruction is to produce motivated, independent,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Context Clues, Correlation, Decoding (Reading)
