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Direct linkWashburn, Jocelyn – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2023
This study examined incremental change for several reading component skills while adolescents were actively learning a word-level intervention and measured pre-/postintervention change in skills. Six ninth graders in two different classes participated during the 2019-2020 academic year. Primary analysis was based on an A-B single-case design…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 9, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
Olivia Rush; Krystal L. Werfel; Emily Lund – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study compares responses of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) who use spoken language with responses of children who have typical hearing on a repeated word association task to evaluate lexical-semantic organization. Method: This study included 109 participants in early kindergarten or who had completed first grade. The…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students
Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2022
Based on recent research and in collaboration with expert panelists, the What Works Clearinghouse™ (WWC) has provided practical recommendations for preschool educators to use to help prepare young children benefit from learning opportunities they will encounter in school. The "Preparing Young Children for School Practice Guide" details…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Evidence Based Practice
Burchinal, Margaret R.; Krowka, Sarah; Newman-Gonchar, Rebecca; Jayanthi, Madhavi; Gersten, Russell; Wavell, Samantha; Lyskawa, Julia; Haymond, Kelly; Bierman, Karen; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; McClelland, Megan M.; Nelson, Kimberly; Pentimonti, Jill; Purpura, David J.; Sachs, Jason; Sarama, Julie; Schlesinger-Devlin, Elizabeth; Washington, Julie; Rosen, Emily – What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
By learning social-emotional, executive function, mathematics, and literacy skills in preschool, children are likely to be better prepared for the higher expectations and more formal curriculum in elementary school. Ensuring that all children are well prepared for elementary school is a priority for parents, caregivers, guardians, and policy…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Evidence Based Practice
Mengfei Zhao; Dongjie Jiang; Jun Wang – Cognitive Science, 2025
Previous research suggests that statistical learning enhances memory for self-related information at the individual level and that individuals exhibit better memory for partner-related items than they do for irrelevant items in joint contexts (i.e., the joint memory effect, JME). However, whether statistical learning improves memory for…
Descriptors: Memory, Task Analysis, Classification, Chinese
Nguyen Thien An Bach; Samuel Barclay – Language Learning Journal, 2025
Choosing which words to teach is a key consideration for language teachers and materials writers. Some studies have shown that teaching words in semantically related clusters can make learning more difficult. However, others argue it is the physical similarity of the referents of words that causes confusion. Importantly, studies have employed…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Proximity, Second Language Instruction
Erim Kizildere; Tilbe Göksun – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
This longitudinal study investigated parents' different pretend play behaviors (substitution, animation, and role enactment) to their infants during free play and the bidirectional links with infants' vocabulary development at 14 months (Time-1: N = 34, M[subscript age] = 14.23 months) and 20 months (Time-2: N = 34, M[subscript age] = 20.33…
Descriptors: Play, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Infants
JeanMarie Farrow; Barbara A. Wasik; Annemarie H. Hindman; Michael J. Farrow – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study investigates translation strategies that enhance idea generation and linguistic construction in early childhood composing, focusing on high language-growth prekindergarten to first-grade classrooms. Our sample included 28 teachers from two under-resourced districts in the Northeastern United States, serving 324 children. Using an…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Disadvantaged Schools, Early Childhood Teachers
Tess Fitzpatrick; Steve Morris – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2025
Around twenty thousand adult learners enrol onto Welsh language classes each year, but many do not progress beyond "Mynediad level" (= Entry, CEFR A1). The study reported here explored techniques to maintain early learning momentum, maximise learners' returns for their learning efforts, and accelerate initial vocabulary acquisition.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Welsh, Second Language Learning
Maribel Montero Perez; Anastasia Pattemore – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
Studies into the role of audiovisual input and captions (i.e., subtitles in the same language as the audio) for L2 learning have shown that such input can positively influence L2 learners' acquisition of lexical items. Few studies have explored the effects of captioning on learners' capacity to segment the speech stream. This study investigates…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Television
Erçin Ayhan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2025
This qualitative study investigates collocational awareness among instructors of Turkish as a Foreign/Second Language (TFSL), focusing on how regular collocation-focused activities influence their teaching practices. While the study was conducted in the Teaching Turkish as a Second Language (TSL) context at a private university in Türkiye, the…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Instruction, Private Colleges, Language Usage
Mackenzie S. Swirbul – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Infants and toddlers experience the world in interaction with others. Likewise, social interactions are important in learning about math--concepts of number ("one," "two," "three"), space ("on top," "upside-down," "round"), and magnitude ("more," "big,"…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Mathematics Skills, Sociocultural Patterns
Sembiring, Marcelia – Journal of English Teaching, 2022
Short stories are believed to be a powerful educational tool and play critical roles in EFL classrooms as they provide advantageous authentic learning material, facilitate language development, offer cultural enrichment, and boost personal involvement. This study aimed at describing students' perception of using short stories to develop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Grade 8
Erdemir, Ersoy; Brutt-Griffler, Janina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Language development of preschoolers can be positively stimulated and enhanced by exposure to language of peers. Likewise, interactions of young learners with native-monolingual classmates may contribute to their L2 development. However, research on peer interaction effects in young learners' domains of L2 development is meager. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Immigrants
Annemarie H. Hindman; JeanMarie Farrow; Barbara A. Wasik – Grantee Submission, 2022
Back-and-forth conversations with adults are critical for developing children's language, and, therefore, an important part of the early childhood classroom learning environment; however, the specific nature of teacher feedback, one component of teacher-child conversations, on child language has not been widely studied. This article examined…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Feedback (Response)
