The symbol-sound correspondence status of vowel-cluster (two or more adjacent vowel letters) spelling in American English was investigated. The source of the study was Venezky's 1963 revision of the Thorndike Frequency Count. A computer print-out of the 20,000 word corpus was analyzed to determine the letter-sound correspondence of vowel cluster…

Compiles vocabulary from the spontaneous speaking vocabulary of children in kindergarten-first grade and from a list of 500 words frequently used in printed American English. (WY)

Analyzes the compilation of the 220 words included in the Dolch Basic Sight Word List from studies done in the 1920's. Compares this list to the representatively selected 50,406 words in rank order from the Kucera-Nelson Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (1967). (MB)

Vocabulary studies conducted in this century are reviewed in this paper, with an emphasis on several recent investigations utilizing computer technology. The use of computers has greatly facilitated the ease and accuracy of word tabulation, but the lists are only as language-reflective as the sources from which they are derived. The great majority…

The primary focuse of the research project reported in this paper over a five-year period has been on investigating the effectiveness of vocabulary teaching strategies, with particular emphasis on the two semantic-based instructional strategies of semantic mapping and semantic feature analysis. A series of five varied studies evaluated these…