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Christ, Tanya; Chiu, Ming Ming – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Children learn most of their vocabulary incidentally, by hearing words used in their environment. This study explored which kinds of presentations of words, without any direct instruction, yielded greater depth of target word knowledge. Changes in 56 kindergartners' depth of knowledge for each of 23 novel target words (N =…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Incidental Learning, Kindergarten
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Lenhart, Jan; Lenhard, Wolfgang; Vaahtoranta, Enni; Suggate, Sebastian – Educational Psychology, 2018
Shared-book reading is a well-established intervention to foster vocabulary development. Factors influencing its effectiveness are, however, less well studied, particularly with regard to story-delivery. We contrasted a read-aloud with a free storytelling approach and tested effects on vocabulary learning. In the first study, 83 preschoolers aged…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Listening