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Ashley R. Gibbs; Christopher A. Tullis; Jocelyn Priester; Crysta P. Reddock – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2024
Instructive feedback (IF) is a teaching strategy where extra information, or secondary targets, are presented in the consequence portion of an instructional interaction. Unlike teaching primary targets, no response is required from the learner after presentation. In the current investigation, the procedures from Tullis et al. (2017, "The…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Response, Teaching Methods, Verbal Development
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Ongoro, Catherine Akoth; Mwangoka, Joseph W. – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2019
This paper presents the effects of using digital games on improving language learning in Tanzanian preschools. A gamified learning prototype system was developed for making alphabetical sound articulation more engaging and fun. The study was conducted with twelve preschools in Tanzania. The results revealed that preschoolers' learning performance…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Miller, Harry B. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Teaching vocabulary often began as a poorly organized, extensive list of new terms presented to students each week. Students recorded a selected list of words and sought their meanings. With time devoted to study and review of the new terms, students were considered prepared for a test on mastery by the final class session of the week. The…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Vocabulary Development, Academic Achievement, Verbal Development
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Goldblat, Ester; Pinto, Ofir Y. – Deafness & Education International, 2017
Auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) is an instructional approach for children with hearing loss (HL) that emphasizes auditory learning. Studies relating to the effectiveness of AVT usually relate to speech and language outcomes of young children receiving AVT. Little is known about outcomes of these children later on, such as academic achievements. The…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Young Adults
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Christ, Tanya; Wang, X. Christine – Reading Psychology, 2011
Our qualitative literature review of 31 published studies found that (a) three major approaches are used in early childhood classrooms to support children's vocabulary learning--exposing children to advanced words, providing direct word-meaning instruction, and employing mixed-method interventions; (b) these practices support children's learning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Children, Early Childhood Education, Vocabulary Development
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Liu, Chen-Chung; Chen, Holly S. L.; Shih, Ju-Ling; Huang, Guo-Ting; Liu, Baw-Jhiune – Computers & Education, 2011
Storytelling is an imperative and innovative pathway to enhance learning due to the fact that such activity prompts learners to reflect to construct meaning based on their observations and knowledge. Therefore, to develop and enhance students' storytelling ability has become an important issue for both educators and researchers. Since storytelling…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Story Grammar, Story Telling
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Schwartz, John Pedro – College English, 2008
The author calls for incorporating into English classes what he calls museum-based pedagogy, arguing that it enables the teaching of multiple literacies: verbal, visual, technological, social, and critical. In part, this pedagogy consists of classroom instruction that enables students to understand the persuasive nature of museum displays--the…
Descriptors: Museums, Educational Technology, Information Literacy, Computer Literacy
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Delgado, Jo Ann Pereira; Oblak, Mara – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2007
We tested the effects of an intensive tact instruction procedure on the emission of verbal operants in non-instructional settings by three preschool students with developmental delays. The participants were selected because they emitted low numbers pure verbal operants in non-instructional settings throughout the school day. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Developmental Delays, Verbal Development, Instructional Effectiveness
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Pistoljevic, Nirvana; Greer, R. Douglas – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2006
We tested the effects of an intensive tact instruction procedure on numbers of tacts emitted in non-instructional settings (NIS) using a multiple probe design across 3 participants (3- and 4-year old boys with autism). The dependent variable was tacts emitted in NIS before/after the mastery of sets of 5 different stimuli. The non-instructional…
Descriptors: Autism, Preschool Children, Males, Reinforcement
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Hoots, Rita A. – American Biology Teacher, 1991
Discussed is how strange words frequently reveal their meanings through contextual use, similarity to known vocabulary, by their sounds, or by analysis of their parts. Twelve words from the discipline of biology are analyzed using analysis of their parts. (KR)
Descriptors: Biology, Language Enrichment, Science Education, Secondary Education
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Nurss, Joanne R.; Hough, Ruth A. – Journal of Educational Research, 1985
Five language-eliciting situations were presented to kindergarten and primary-grade children to identify developmental trends and task effects in the complexity of language structures, vocabulary, functions, and story conventions used. Limited developmental differences and significant task effects were found. Implications for classroom instruction…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Oral Language, Primary Education
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Ross, Denise E.; Nuzzolo, Robin; Stolfi, Lauren; Natarelli, Sarah – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2006
Speaker immersion is a tactic that uses multiple establishing operations to increase speaker behavior for individuals with limited mand and tact repertoires. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the effects of speaker immersion on the number of independent mands, tacts, and autoclitics emitted by young children with verbal delays. In the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Developmental Delays
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Schauffler, Geneva; Greer, R. Douglas – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2006
We examined the effects of intensive tact instruction on emission of audience-accurate verbalizations of 2 middle school students using a delayed multiple baseline design across participants. Dependent variables were accurate and inaccurate audience controlled tacts and conversational units during non-instructional times. Following baselines,…
Descriptors: Verbal Development, Teaching Methods, Reinforcement, Middle School Students
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Barcroft, Joe – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This article discusses the importance of vocabulary in second language acquisition (SLA), presents an overview of major strands of research on vocabulary acquisition, and discusses five principles for effective second language (L2) vocabulary instruction based on research findings on lexical input processing. These principles emphasize…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Verbal Development, Teaching Methods
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Sakayan, Dora; Tessier, Christine – Unterrichtspraxis, 1983
Discusses the use of stereotyped speech patterns as teaching material or as the basis of communicative exercises. Gives examples of the use of these gambits in drills and exercises in German. (EKN)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), German, Language Patterns, Language Usage
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