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Paul Meara; Imma Miralpeix – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2025
This paper is part 5 of a series of workshops that examines the properties of some simple models of vocabulary networks. While previous workshops dealt with activating words in the network, this workshop focuses on vocabulary loss. We will simulate two possible ways of modelling attrition: (a) explicitly turning active words OFF, and (b) raising…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Workshops, Models, Networks
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Schmitt, Norbert – Language Teaching, 2019
This paper suggests six areas of vocabulary research which the author believes would be fruitful for future research. They include (1) developing a practical model of vocabulary acquisition, (2) understanding how vocabulary knowledge develops from receptive to productive mastery, (3) getting lexical teaching/learning principles into vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Fumero, Keisey; Tibi, Sana – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: This clinical focus article will highlight the importance and role of morphological awareness (MA) across orthographies, in particular, the role it plays in reading development, specifically with bilingual populations. MA supports reading acquisition and development beyond other predictors of reading, such as phonological awareness,…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Intervention, Bilingualism
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Seedhouse, Paul; Heslop, Phil; Kharrufa, Ahmed; Ren, Simin; Nguyen, Trang – The EUROCALL Review, 2019
In this article, the authors present the Linguacuisine app--a product of the Erasmus Plus-funded project 'Linguacuisine'. Linguacuisine is the third generation of digital technology they have produced, the first two being the French and European Digital Kitchens. Linguacuisine tackles the universal problem of classroom language teaching, namely…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software
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Hilliard, Amanda – English Teaching Forum, 2017
Pragmatic competence, or the ability to use language appropriately in a variety of contexts, is a critical skill for communication in a second language (L2). Thus, teaching that focuses on developing students' abilities to communicate effectively in an L2 must also include a focus on developing students' pragmatic competence. This article…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jones-Kellogg, Rebecca – Hispania, 2015
This paper describes a task-based activity used at the United States Military Academy, in their first- through third-semester Portuguese language sequence "Proficiencies" (Proficiências). The stand-alone task-based activity can be an effective tool in gaining foreign-language proficiency at even the lowest levels of classroom instruction…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes, Task Analysis
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Reisenleutner, Sandra – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Oral language exams at university often consist of an individual or group conversation with the examiner about topics dealt with during the semester. A question-and-answer format is applied and vocabulary and structures tested. As a consequence, the oral exam does not reflect action-oriented approaches that often form part of classroom activities…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Universities
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Barcroft, Joe – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2015
This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to "lexical input processing" (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in the input. Unit 1 specifies parameters of lex-IP research among other levels of input processing as well as…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Language Processing, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen – Language Learning, 2013
This article positions research on the acquisition of pragmatics as an inquiry in the greater field of second language acquisition research. Viewing pragmatics from this intersection, I consider five areas of research that are of interest in both fields and have the potential to make significant contributions to second language pragmatics…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Grammar
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Ward, Elizabeth; Williams-Rossi, Dara – Science Scope, 2012
One of the most challenging tasks in increasingly diverse classrooms is helping students develop the "knowledge and language of science to communicate scientific explanations and ideas" (NRC 1996, p. 144). In this article, the authors share one of their favorite methods for incorporating and reinforcing science vocabulary instruction in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary Development
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Stahl, Katherine A. Dougherty; Bravo, Marco A. – Reading Teacher, 2010
One of the challenges of teaching disciplinary vocabulary effectively is the paucity of available, classroom-friendly vocabulary assessments that can be used to gauge students' vocabulary growth and to inform vocabulary instruction. This article describes the intricacies of word knowledge that make assessment difficult. Three continua…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Reading Teachers
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Dann, Tammy; Cornwell, Lindsey – Learning Languages, 2008
Information gap activities are partner tasks that improve interpersonal communication skills. One student has information the other student needs, hence a "gap" exists that students seek to close through communication. As students gain experience and language skills, they create language that is more meaningful. These are activities that…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Interpersonal Communication, Language Skills, Communication Skills
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Pitchford, N. J.; Mullen, K. T. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2005
When learning basic color vocabulary, young children show a selective delay in the acquisition of brown and gray relative to other basic color terms. In this study, we first establish the robustness of this finding and then investigate the extent to which perception, language, and color preference may influence color conceptualization.…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Young Children, Color, Vocabulary Development
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Hales, Tom – ELT Journal, 1997
Examines language in an initial teacher training course and shows how trainees' awareness can be raised by looking at samples of the way they use it themselves. (five references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Course Content, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Processing