The democratic aim of American education is to provide "all" students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to become informed, effective, and responsible citizens. Like civic education itself, literacy education can be embraced by all teachers across all disciplines. There are strategies that all teachers can use to help address…

A writing activity using both English and Spanish words will help develop vocabularies for the students in a foreign language course, especially if the activity is centered around a holiday. (JH)

The underlying semantic structure of the complete lexicon of four Hebrew-speaking infants at the one-word stage of lexical development was examined. Particular attention was given to the timing of word acquisition and the patterns of identified relationships among words. Three types of interrelationships among early words were explored: (1)…

THIS "EXERCISE BOOK" CONTAINS VOCABULARY DRILLS AND QUESTIONS BASED ON THE TWENTY LECTURES OF THE READER VOLUME. FOR EACH LECTURE UNIT THERE ARE TWO VOCABULARY DRILLS AND A LIST OF 20 QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED. THE FIRST VOCABULARY DRILL IS COORDINATED WITH THE VOCABULARY LISTS OF THE LECTURE BOOK, AND CONSISTS OF THE NEW VOCABULARY ITEMS USED IN…

RECENT RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT WAS REVIEWED, AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSFORMING DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH INTO PRESCRIPTIONS FOR EDUCATION WERE DISCUSSED. RESEARCH FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRESCHOOL TEACHING WERE MADE UNDER THE FOLLOWING HEADINGS--(1) THE ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR, STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE, (2) THE ACQUISITION OF…

Two studies were undertaken within the framework of learning set or learning-how-to-learn methodology, with comparable sets of stimuli which varied from trial to trial rather than remaining constant. Two randomly assigned groups of tenth grade students used a different four-word set of difficult vocabulary items each day for 15 days. Time taken…

This article discusses in general terms derivational aspects of English vocabulary. Citing examples of Anglo-Saxon origin, the author provides a glimpse into the nature of the interrelatedness of English, German, and French vocabulary. (RL)

Presents 21 ideas for teachers to consider in developing children's vocabulary. (MKM)

Explains how to create a file of useful student-centered language learning modules with four-by-six cards. Modules can focus on vocabulary development, completion drills, or sequential arrangement of information, can be adapted to any age level, and can be inexpensively augmented, or discarded after use. (Author/DJD)

Two studies examined the ability of 22 deaf high school students to instantiate (select appropriate word meaning from context) particular exemplars of general nouns and to use those instantiations as retrieval cues. Among results were that subjects could instantiate when asked to do so but did not do so spontaneously. (Author/DB)

Findings from studies exploring role of joint attentional focus in children's acquisition of language indicated that language of 24 mothers and their 15- to 21-month-olds inside episodes of joint attentional focus involved more utterances, shorter sentences, more comments, and longer conversations than outside of episodes. Also, object references…

Recommends the teaching of the acquisition of "potential" vocabulary, i.e., of new words through mastery of the principles of word-building and the use of analogy. "International" words are also included. Suggestions are given to the teacher for systematic work leading to mastery of potential vocabulary. (Text is in German.)…

This textbook is a second reader with longer words from common vocabulary that pupils should learn to recognize in print as they do in speech. Pupils should learn to use them in conversation more readily because they are to be found in their reader, which trains them in the use of good language. The phonic method is used. A key to the…

Discussion of the semantic relationship of "bring" and "come" in sentence pairs such as "I brought the ball to a stop" and "The ball came to a stop," and how such relationships can be exploited in teaching vocabulary. (FWB)