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Durrant, Philip; Brenchley, Mark – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This paper aims to advance our understanding of how children's use of vocabulary in writing changes as they progress through their school careers. It examines the extent to which a model of lexical sophistication as use of low-frequency, register-appropriate words adequately captures development in vocabulary use across the course of compulsory…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Word Frequency
Asik, Asuman; Vural, Arzu Sarlanoglu; Akpinar, Kadriye Dilek – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
Data-driven learning (DDL) has become an innovative approach developed from corpus linguistics. It plays a significant role in the progression of foreign language pedagogy, since it offers learners plentiful authentic corpora examples that make them analyze language rules with the help of online corpora and concordancers. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Folse, Keith S. – English Teaching Forum, 2008
This article focuses on the development of vocabulary among English language learners. The author first defines what a "word" means, then discusses five aspects of vocabulary knowledge. Drawing on Swain (1993), the author identifies three main goals of vocabulary learning. The rest of the article is devoted to the description of six…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)

Green, Walter B. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1974
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comprehension, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research

Charles-Luce, Jan; Luce, Paul A. – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Examines issues relating to similarity neighborhoods of words in children's lexicons. Young children's receptive vocabularies were analyzed for three-phoneme, four-phoneme and five-phoneme words. The pattern of the original results from Charles-Luce & Luce (1990) was replicated. (18 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Patterns, Language Research
Goodman, Kenneth S.; Bird, Lois Bridges – 1982
Analyzing word frequency in six complete texts, a study investigated how vocabulary can be used to define texts. The texts included three stories from 5th and 6th grade readers, selections from literature anthologies for 8th grade and 12th grade students, and a magazine essay for adults. Results indicated that if particular words occur frequently…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage
Kennedy, Graeme D. – 1990
Traditionally, the study of language patterns has been viewed primarily in terms of rules of grammar and discourse and of vocabulary choice. Researchers are now exploring the nature of collocations, or patterns of word sequence or co-occurrence in discourse. Most of the attention has been focused on colorful collocations, not on more ordinary…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Patterns
Fu, Zhuqin – Online Submission, 2006
To many Chinese students, learning the words such as "make" and "do" seems a piece of cake, yet learning how to use them appropriately is anther case. This paper aims to investigate Chinese learners' use of the verbs "make" and "do", two major representatives of high-frequency words from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Native Speakers, Grammar
PFEFFER, J. ALAN – 1968
THIRD IN A SERIES OF RELATED STUDIES UNDERTAKEN TO ARRIVE AT THE CORE ELEMENTS OF SPOKEN GERMAN, THIS LIST IS BASED ON THE LATEST COMPUTER TECHNIQUES IN FREQUENCY ANALYSIS. AN INTRODUCTION EXAMINES AND REDEFINES THE CONCEPT OF IDIOMATIC PATTERNS. THE BODY OF THE TEXT LISTS, BY FREQUENCY AND RANGE, 1,100 OF THE MOST COMMON IDIOMS IN SPOKEN GERMAN.…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, German, Idioms, Instructional Materials
Wepman, Joseph M.; Hass, Wilbur – 1969
Relatively little research has been done on the quantitative characteristics of children's word usage. This spoken count was undertaken to investigate those aspects of word usage and frequency which could cast light on lexical processes in grammar and verbal development in children. Three groups of 30 children each (boys and girls) from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words
Lord, Catherine – 1975
The significance of three mothers' speech for their infants' language development is considered in a continuing longitudinal study. The study began when the children (two females and one male) were 5 and 6 months of age and will continue until the subjects are 3 years old. In the speech data reported the children were from 6 to 18 months of age.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Imitation, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition