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Cheng, Junyu; Matthews, Joshua; Lange, Kriss; McLean, Stuart – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
This study quantifies second language (L2) knowledge of aural single words and aural phrasal verbs (PVs) and investigates their relationship with L2 listening comprehension. An aural first language (L1) meaning recall test format was used to measure knowledge of 81 single-word and 81 PV target items (with equivalent frequencies of occurrence)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension, Aural Learning, Verbs
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Akhtar, Nameera; Jipson, Jennifer; Callanan, Maureen A. – Child Development, 2001
Three studies examined 2-year-olds' ability to learn novel words when overhearing these words used by others. Found that children ages 2.5 years were equally good at learning novel object labels and action verbs when they were overhearers as when they were directly addressed. For younger 2-year-olds, this was true for object labels, but results…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Naigles, Letitia R.; Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examined the extent to which maternal linguistic input enabled children to use syntactic bootstrapping. Studied uses of 25 common verbs in speech of 57 mothers to their 1-year olds and 2-year olds. Found that verbs can be used to create informative syntactic frames, syntactic frames can cue appropriate verb class, and multiple syntactic framing…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures