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Ahmad Syawaluddin; Nur Aeni – Discover Education, 2025
This study looks at how utilizing digital versions of classic games specifically Snakes and Ladders can help young learners learn more vocabulary in English. The study focuses on how digital versions of classic games can improve primary school students' vocabulary learning and retention. A quasi-experimental approach was used, with a control group…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
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Alain Bengochea; Sabrina F. Sembiante – Review of Education, 2024
This best-evidence synthesis appraises the design and outcome characteristics of vocabulary intervention studies conducted with preschool through 6th grade emergent bilingual (EB) children and spotlights rigorously designed studies for which effects could be better attributed to instructional features. Twenty-nine selected studies were analysed…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Comparative Analysis
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Karimova, Gulim; Ishanov, Pirmagambet; Mukanova, Saulesh; Odintsova, Svetlana; Aratayeva, Aigul – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2023
In Kazakhstan, as in many other countries, foreign language education starts at an early age, but the desired success is not achieved. This may be due to instructional, environmental or socioeconomic factors, as well as cognitive and psychological factors such as the structure of the language, the teaching methods used, and attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Technology
Pitner, Hannah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Relatively little research has considered how tasks are performed and experienced by students in different types of classrooms. Research shows that innovative classroom designs can lead to higher levels of cognitive engagement, connections between form and meaning, and more diverse forms of input (Schmidt, 1990; Svalberg, 2012) and are…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Mark Feng Teng – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Working memory (WM) may be an essential component of incidental vocabulary learning and retention from captioned videos. However, how WM affects young learners' incidental vocabulary learning under different types of captions remains unclear. The present study employs a between-subject research design. The main purpose is to examine how two types…
Descriptors: Captions, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
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Van Mensel, Luk; Galand, Benoît – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
This longitudinal study assessed the relative importance of second language exposure, motivational and attitudinal factors, and executive functions in predicting receptive vocabulary acquisition in children and adolescents after controlling for background characteristics (socio-economic status, non-verbal intelligence) and prior knowledge. The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 11
Frates, Adriana; Spooner, Fred; Collins, Belva C.; Running Bear, Candi – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2022
The current study examined the effects of a shared reading instructional package on the receptive identification of English sight vocabulary in multilingual learner students with extensive support needs. Two participants received the intervention, one in a face-to-face format and one in a videoconferencing format (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). To…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Special Needs Students, Reading Aloud to Others, Vocabulary Development
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Li, Yixun; Wang, Min; Espinas, Daniel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Children can teach themselves new words via independent text reading. Previous studies on self-teaching heavily focused on learning to read in a first language (L1). Limited work was devoted to learning a second language (L2). We investigated the roles of exposure time of target pseudowords (four vs. six), availability of context (cohesive story…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Independent Study, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Song, Yanjie; Ma, Qing – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
This paper reports on a case study of English as a second language (ESL) vocabulary learning that examined a group of Grade 4 students' mobile learning experiences of bridging in-class and real-life vocabulary learning mediated by a mobile learner-generated content (m-LGC) tool. This study was premised on the proposed framework of mobile…
Descriptors: Affordances, Electronic Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Frederick J. Poole; Matthew D. Coss; Jody Clarke-Midura – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
This study explored the use of stealth assessments within a digital game to assess second language (L2) Chinese learners' reading comprehension. Log data tracking learners' in-game behaviors from a game designed for Chinese dual language immersion classrooms (Poole et al., 2022) were used to construct Bayesian Belief Networks to model reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Game Based Learning
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Anne Barwasser; Karolina Urton; Turid Knaak; Matthias Grünke – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The increasing number of students with German as a second language (GL2) poses a great challenge for schools. Previous studies showed that especially young learners with a migration background are lagging behind in the acquisition of second language (L2) literacy. Experiencing problem behaviors (PB) in addition, might pose even greater challenges.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Yu-Fen Yang; Wen-Min Hsieh; Wing-Kwong Wong; Yi-Chun Hong; Siao-Cing Lai – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) is considered a central affective factor influencing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning. This study thus developed an online simulation game to create a virtually situated learning environment for reducing EFL primary school students' FLA levels and improving their English vocabulary learning. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yangin Ersanli, Ceylan – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2023
The incorporation of technology has revolutionized the education industry, with augmented reality (AR) being one of the emerging technologies that exhibit great potential in educational settings. This study examines the efficacy of AR in enhancing vocabulary learning and retention among young 5th-grade learners. This study was conducted with 56…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Story Telling, Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology)
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Fejzo, Anila – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The present study examines the concurrent relationship between morphological awareness and vocabulary breadth and depth after accounting for the effect of other potential contributors. A sample of French-speaking fourth-grade children who spoke either French at home (L1) (n = 55) or another language (L2) (n = 85) completed a number of tests…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Vocabulary Development, French, Elementary School Students
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Leticia R. Martinez; Sarah Fishstrom; Sharon Vaughn; Philip Capin; Coleen D. Carlson; Tim T. Andress; David J. Francis – Grantee Submission, 2024
This study examined the initial efficacy of World Generation (WorldGen), a Tier I social studies instructional approach for emergent bilingual (EB) students and their native English-speaking (non-EB) peers in Grades 6 and 7. WorldGen builds on prior research on instructional practices that have been associated with improved content knowledge and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis, World History
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