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Atwell, William R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a visual strategy that of chunking or visually bracketing phrasal verbs in sentences in short stories. A descriptive case study design was used for this study to compare the two instructional strategies. In this study, stories were presented to 14 severely and profound deaf students…
Descriptors: Deafness, Instructional Effectiveness, Visual Stimuli, Verbs
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Marinellie, Sally A. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010
The ability to define a word with accuracy and precision is an important skill that has been associated with academic achievement. This study investigated the feasibility of conducting a lesson on formal word definitions to improve children's definitional production. The participants were 18 children in grade 4 (mean age: 9 years; 8 months) who…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Verbs, Nouns, Definitions