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Development of Academic Vocabulary across Primary School Age: Differential Growth and Influential Factors for German Monolinguals and Language Minority Learners
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Volodina, Anna; Weinert, Sabine; Mursin, Katharina – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Academic language has been shown to significantly contribute to success across school subjects. However, to date, there are no empirical studies addressing its development across primary school age. The present study investigated the growth of academic vocabulary and influential conditions from Grades 2 to 4 based on a newly developed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Academic Language, Vocabulary Development
Reciprocal Relationship: Children's Morphological Awareness and Their Reading Accuracy across Grades 2 to 3
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Deacon, S. Helene; Benere, Jenna; Pasquarella, Adrian – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Across all the domains of child development, we need to understand the temporal relationship between variables suspected to underpin growth; reading research is no exception. We conducted a preliminary evaluation of the direction of the relationship between children's morphological awareness, or the awareness of and ability to manipulate the…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Early Reading, Phonological Awareness, Child Development