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Direct linkNing, Ping; DeWitt, Dorothy; Leng, Chin Hai; Alias, Norlidah – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2022
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this research was to examine the potential outcomes of applying the outdoor transdisciplinary language instruction paradigm to primary school students' cognitive and emotional improvement with smart boards as an assessment tool. Background: Traditional approaches to teaching English in primary schools do not give…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Download full textAl-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Teaching and learning of technical terms constitute a major problem for ESP instructors and students. To help the students learn, retain, apply and relate technical terms, a multiple-associations instructional approach that focuses on connecting the printed form of the technical term with its pronunciation (the hidden sounds, double and silent…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
What 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
Vasileiou, Iro; Pili-Moss, Diana – Research-publishing.net, 2022
The current study investigated the role of visual short-term memory, working memory, and declarative memory as individual differences in the earliest stages of vocabulary and syntactic learning in "Duolingo"-based language instruction. Thirty-eight L1-Greek adults completed memory tasks and engaged in learning Navajo on…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Katherine I. Kang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigates the effects of four online vocabulary tasks on second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition among learners of different proficiency levels. While tasks are widely used to support L2 vocabulary learning, the efficacy of a task depends on the interplay between task and learner factors. Thus, choosing an appropriate task…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Kazuhito Uni – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Arabic is one of the largest donor languages to Malay and Persian. This study explores the benefits of Arabic vocabulary in teaching Malay words of Arabic origin to Persian-speaking students using a vocabulary survey containing 40 Malay words of Arabic origin, most of which retain phonetic or semantic similarity in Persian. Participants were 20…
Descriptors: Indonesian Languages, Indo European Languages, Arabic, Second Language Learning
Mixan, Marisa – Reading Improvement, 2019
Vocabulary development is a crucial aspect of literacy. It is our duty as teachers to enrich the language of our students to better prepare them for a successful lifetime of communication. This paper offers several methods to enhance levels of speech in the classroom. Some of the techniques included are the use of repetitive reading, reading…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Oral Reading
van Berkel-van Hoof, Lian; Hermans, Daan; Knoors, Harry; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study investigated the effects of signs on word learning by children with developmental language disorder (DLD), in comparison with typically developing (TD) children, and the relation between a possible sign effect and children's linguistic and cognitive abilities. Method: Nine- to 11-year-old children with DLD (n = 40) and TD…
Descriptors: Signs, Children, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
Pojanapunya, Punjaporn – TESOL Journal, 2019
Prioritizing vocabulary for instruction is central to English for academic purposes (EAP) research. Several word lists have been created to serve different needs, with many of them being restricted to a basic classification as general, academic, and technical words. Although discipline-specific vocabulary lists are useful for particular…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Interdisciplinary Approach, English for Academic Purposes, Word Lists
Xie, Haoran; Zou, Di; Zhang, Ruofei; Wang, Minhong; Kwan, Reggie – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2019
It is widely acknowledged that the acquisition of vocabulary is the foundation of learning English. With the rapid development of information technologies in recent years, e-learning systems have been widely adopted for English as a Second Language (ESL) Learning. However, a limitation of conventional word learning systems is that the prior…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Individualized Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Culloty, Amy M.; O'Toole, Ciara; Gibbon, Fiona E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study examines the expressive language and speech of twins, relative to singletons, at 3 and 5 years, with the aim of determining if a twinning effect occurs during this developmental period. The possibility of twins outgrowing a twinning effect was investigated. Method: A weighted population-based sample of 185 twins and 1,309…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Expressive Language, Child Language, Twins
Moore, Charlotte; Dailey, Shannon; Garrison, Hallie; Amatuni, Andrei; Bergelson, Elika – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Around their first birthdays, infants begin to point, walk, and talk. These abilities are appreciable both by researchers with strictly standardized criteria and caregivers with more relaxed notions of what each of these skills entails. Here, we compare the onsets of these skills and links among them across two data collection methods: observation…
Descriptors: Child Development, Infants, Child Behavior, Vocabulary Development
Makoe, Mpine; Shandu-Phetla, Thulile P. – Journal of Learning for Development, 2019
This paper examines how WhatsApp can be used to build learning communities and facilitate interaction, through the lens of Ubuntu -- an African concept of humanness, which means that an individual person owes his or her existence to the existence of others. The Afrocentric concept of Ubuntu and interaction work concomitantly towards the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Interaction, African Culture, Distance Education
Gonzalez-Barrero, Ana Maria; Nadig, Aparna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
We examined the lexical and grammatical skills of monolingual and bilingual school-age children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Thirteen monolingual and thirteen bilingual children with ASD without intellectual disability, were compared on standardized measures of vocabulary and morphology. Findings revealed that bilingual children performed…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grammar, Bilingual Students, Children
