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Touching While Listening: Does Infants' Haptic Word Processing Speed Predict Vocabulary Development?
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Direct linkKayla Beaudin; Diane Poulin-DuBois; Pascal Zesiger – Journal of Child Language, 2024
The present study examined the links between haptic word processing speed, vocabulary, and inhibitory control among bilingual children. Three main hypotheses were tested: faster haptic processing speed, measured by the Computerized Comprehension Task at age 1;11, would be associated with larger concurrent vocabulary and greater longitudinal…
Descriptors: Infants, Tactual Perception, Predictor Variables, Vocabulary Development
Shavlik, Margaret; Davis-Kean, Pamela E.; Schwab, Jessica F.; Booth, Amy E. – Developmental Science, 2021
Socioeconomic status (SES) has been repeatedly linked to the developmental trajectory of vocabulary acquisition in young children. However, the nature of this relationship remains underspecified. In particular, despite an extensive literature documenting young children's reliance on a host of skills and strategies to learn new words, little…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Socioeconomic Status, Ambiguity (Semantics)
Download full textNurhamizah Ishak – International Journal of Language Education, 2025
Out-of-class learning is an additional vital component in successful English language acquisition among proficient ESL users. Thus, this study employed a quantitative research approach to investigate out-of-class English language practice by Malaysian ESL post-secondary students. 106 first-semester Diploma in Tourism Management students at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Surip Haryani; Maulida Rahmawati Emha – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2025
This research formulates and tests an AI-integrated e-book to increase English for Specific Purposes (ESP) learning by health science students in order to enhance speaking performance. Conventional ESP materials in health sciences are typically static and non-interactive, limiting opportunities for real-time communicative practice. Using a…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Artificial Intelligence, Second Language Learning, Health Sciences
Elizabeth Swanson; Alicia A. Stewart; Elizabeth A. Stevens; Nancy K. Scammacca; Philip Capin; Bethany H. Bhat; Greg Roberts; Sharon Vaughn – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
This study addressed the effects of Strategies for Teaching Reading, Information, and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE), a distributed professional development (PD) model designed to help teachers implement reading comprehension and vocabulary practices in fourth grade social studies classes. Schools (n = 81 schools, n = 235 teachers, n = 4,757…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reading Instruction, Faculty Development, Reading Strategies
Instructional Research Group, 2024
Using a research design that meets the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, researchers reported the results of analyses examining the impact of the Teacher Study Group (TSG) professional development (PD) program targeting eighth grade American History teachers working with a large number of current or…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Academic Language, English Learners
Washburn, Jocelyn – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2023
This study examined incremental change for several reading component skills while adolescents were actively learning a word-level intervention and measured pre-/postintervention change in skills. Six ninth graders in two different classes participated during the 2019-2020 academic year. Primary analysis was based on an A-B single-case design…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 9, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
Olivia Rush; Krystal L. Werfel; Emily Lund – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study compares responses of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) who use spoken language with responses of children who have typical hearing on a repeated word association task to evaluate lexical-semantic organization. Method: This study included 109 participants in early kindergarten or who had completed first grade. The…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students
What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
Based on recent research and in collaboration with expert panelists, the What Works Clearinghouse™ (WWC) has provided practical recommendations for preschool educators to use to help prepare young children benefit from learning opportunities they will encounter in school. The "Preparing Young Children for School Practice Guide" details…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Evidence Based Practice
Burchinal, Margaret R.; Krowka, Sarah; Newman-Gonchar, Rebecca; Jayanthi, Madhavi; Gersten, Russell; Wavell, Samantha; Lyskawa, Julia; Haymond, Kelly; Bierman, Karen; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; McClelland, Megan M.; Nelson, Kimberly; Pentimonti, Jill; Purpura, David J.; Sachs, Jason; Sarama, Julie; Schlesinger-Devlin, Elizabeth; Washington, Julie; Rosen, Emily – What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
By learning social-emotional, executive function, mathematics, and literacy skills in preschool, children are likely to be better prepared for the higher expectations and more formal curriculum in elementary school. Ensuring that all children are well prepared for elementary school is a priority for parents, caregivers, guardians, and policy…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Evidence Based Practice
Mengfei Zhao; Dongjie Jiang; Jun Wang – Cognitive Science, 2025
Previous research suggests that statistical learning enhances memory for self-related information at the individual level and that individuals exhibit better memory for partner-related items than they do for irrelevant items in joint contexts (i.e., the joint memory effect, JME). However, whether statistical learning improves memory for…
Descriptors: Memory, Task Analysis, Classification, Chinese
Nguyen Thien An Bach; Samuel Barclay – Language Learning Journal, 2025
Choosing which words to teach is a key consideration for language teachers and materials writers. Some studies have shown that teaching words in semantically related clusters can make learning more difficult. However, others argue it is the physical similarity of the referents of words that causes confusion. Importantly, studies have employed…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Proximity, Second Language Instruction
Erim Kizildere; Tilbe Göksun – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
This longitudinal study investigated parents' different pretend play behaviors (substitution, animation, and role enactment) to their infants during free play and the bidirectional links with infants' vocabulary development at 14 months (Time-1: N = 34, M[subscript age] = 14.23 months) and 20 months (Time-2: N = 34, M[subscript age] = 20.33…
Descriptors: Play, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Infants
JeanMarie Farrow; Barbara A. Wasik; Annemarie H. Hindman; Michael J. Farrow – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study investigates translation strategies that enhance idea generation and linguistic construction in early childhood composing, focusing on high language-growth prekindergarten to first-grade classrooms. Our sample included 28 teachers from two under-resourced districts in the Northeastern United States, serving 324 children. Using an…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Disadvantaged Schools, Early Childhood Teachers
Tess Fitzpatrick; Steve Morris – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2025
Around twenty thousand adult learners enrol onto Welsh language classes each year, but many do not progress beyond "Mynediad level" (= Entry, CEFR A1). The study reported here explored techniques to maintain early learning momentum, maximise learners' returns for their learning efforts, and accelerate initial vocabulary acquisition.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Welsh, Second Language Learning
