Reviews numerous meaning-based vocabulary methods that use comparing, contrasting, making analogies, or developing examples of concepts and relates them to the adult basic education setting. (JOW)

Provides several typical negative sentence structures, discusses why children find them difficult, and suggests how to begin teaching them to handle negatives. (FL)

Examines workbooks designed to accompany primary grade basal readers to determine the incidence of new vocabulary words they contain. Found that, with one exception, the workbooks all contained at least 30 percent new words--words not introduced in previous levels or at the levels for which the workbooks were designed. (FL)

Describes a way in which a microcomputer can be used as a basis for individualized instruction in reading and word meaning. (FL)

Offers suggestions designed to increase parental interest in attending school meetings, to encourage students to be self-sufficient, and to increase students' vocabulary skills. (AEA)

Suggests an approach to teaching reading skills in German or other foreign languages. The student is encouraged to read a passage and attempt to decipher vocabulary for himself and to develop positive reading habits to be used in other reading exercises. (CHK)

Review for workers in information science of the development of Permuterm Subject Index (PSI) of the Science Citation Index (SCI). (KP)

Describes an experiment conducted among the 20 students of a fourth-semester college Spanish class to evaluate vocabulary teaching as a means of vocabulary expansion. Student-to-student teaching with illustrations was employed. (Author/KM)

The role of vocabulary has been downplayed in the past decades. Only until the recent years has vocabulary begun to receive some initial attentions. Meanwhile, effective classroom methods and practices targeting on the acquisition of vocabulary are limited and often inconclusive. There is an urgent need for exploring the possibility of lexis-based…

The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of a companion text on the comprehension, vocabulary acquisition and fluency of students during teacher read alouds. Data were collected over a period of six days in an upper-middle class suburban school district in northern New Jersey. The students involved in the study consisted of eighteen…

Research has shown that students can be taught to comprehend the material better while they are reading. Successful instruction of this type has usually focused on the teaching of comprehension strategies--that is, intentional actions students can use during reading to guide their thinking. Such strategies improve both understanding and memory.…

To do well in reading, students need to have a well-developed vocabulary on their own developmental level. The vocabulary a student possesses provides background information so that meaningful reading of new content can occur. A language-rich learning environment is necessary for students to thrive in the listening, speaking, reading, and writing…

Vocabulary development is essential for a student to become a good reader. By learning new words in terms of meaning and use, the student can increase his/her listening, speaking, reading, and writing vocabularies. A student may increase vocabulary development when communicating informally with others or formally within a classroom setting. This…

A study investigated the effect of assigning difficult, specific goals on a 50-item vocabulary test to Japanese high school students of English as a Second Language. Subjects were five intact ESL classes (n=190 students) divided into experimental and control groups. A vocabulary-recognition matching pretest was administered to all subjects. After…

The purpose of this study was to determine if third-grade students could learn vocabulary incidentally through silent reading and by listening to stories read aloud as well as which method would produce the greater gain. Students listened to and read silently a total of 16 stories over the course of 8 weeks. Pretest and posttest scores on multiple…