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The Relation between Teacher Input and Lexical Growth of Preschoolers
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Bowers, Edmond P.; Vasilyeva, Marina – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
The present study examined the growth of receptive lexical skills in preschoolers over an academic year in relation to teacher speech. The participating students were English language learners and their monolingual English-speaking peers from the same classrooms. The measures of teacher input included indicators of the amount of speech (total…
Descriptors: Observation, Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, English (Second Language)