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Barnes, Erica M.; Dickinson, David K. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: This study examines lexical- and sentence-level dimensions of academic language to describe teachers' natural use of academic language and its association with vocabulary growth in 489 at-risk 4-year-olds enrolled in Head Start preschool classrooms. Using transcripts derived from video recordings of book-reading sessions in 52…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Usage, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language
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Glass, Rory; Oliveira, Alandeom W. – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
This study examines the pedagogical functions of accommodation (i.e. provision of simplified science speech) in science read-aloud sessions facilitated by five elementary teachers. We conceive of read-alouds as communicative events wherein teachers, faced with the task of orally delivering a science text of relatively high linguistic complexity,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Linguistic Input, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods