In vocabulary testing, whether to adopt context is a heat-debated topic. In the article, an experiment is designed to investigate what is the effect of zero context and sentence context on the vocabulary testing? And how do the different kinds of context in vocabulary affect the subjects' performance? The experimental result demonstrates that…

Although there is evidence for a close link between the development of oral vocabulary and reading comprehension, less clear is whether oral vocabulary skills relate to the development of word-level reading skills. This study investigated vocabulary and literacy in 81 children aged 8 to 10 years. In regression analyses, vocabulary accounted for…

Because of the increasing demands that today's society places on language, there is an increasing need for vocabulary building. The opening of new fields, industries, and media and the vocabularies of specialized fields have all contributed to making increased word knowledge a necessity. New words have been coined to describe developments in new…

Discusses the role of the lexicographer in assisting the translator and the technical writer and in vocabulary control. (AM)

Discusses three major differences between the vocabulary of reading lessons and content area lessons. Discusses the implications these differences make in instruction. (MG)

Uses students' amusing vocabulary mistakes to discuss vocabulary development. (SR)

Shedding light on the current debate on the nature of the relationship between vocabulary instruction and reading comprehension, a study investigated student perceptions of the present state of vocabulary instruction. Subjects, 20 students from each of three grade levels (first, fifth, and eighth), from two schools in suburban Maryland, were…

A study investigated the effectiveness of semantic mapping as a technique to improve recall of word meaning versus the traditional method of teaching vocabulary. Eight intermediate-level students from grades 4, 5, and 6, five of whom were identified as learning disabled students, were subjects. They were tested using vocabulary subtests of the…

The Soviet position on vocabulary and the relationships among intelligence, language, and culture holds that thoughts and words have different developmental roots and that there are more differences than likenesses between them. In this United States study, 105 students grouped by their having parents in three different employment categories were…

Research supported in part with funds from the U.S. Office of Education. (DS)

Presents examples of a method that teaches vocabulary as a prereading activity using selected quotes so that students can use word parts and context clues such as transitions, connotation, and parallel syntactic structure. (RS)

The nature of the cognitive representations and processes involved in vocabulary learning has received little attention in the psycholinguistics and second language literature. This paper addresses the problem by proposing a model of the second-language Mental Lexicon (ML2) and the processes that construct it, as an extension of the model of the…

A study was conducted to compare the results of three test formats in relation to assessing the depth of vocabulary knowledge of fourth-grade students. Students (117) were tested on their knowledge of the primary and secondary meanings of 44 multimeaning words using multiple-choice, yes/no, and interview formats. Information on the test-taking…

DESIGNED TO FOLLOW THE BASIC COURSE IN BULGARIAN, A READER HAS BEEN PREPARED. IT ASSUMES KNOWLEDGE OF THE VOCABULARY (AS PRESENTED IN THE BASIC COURSE ED 003 873 AND ED 003 874) AS WELL AS THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF THE LANGUAGE. THE READER PRESENTS AREA MATERIALS AND INTRODUCES THE STUDENT TO THE VOCABULARY NEEDED TO READ NEWSPAPERS AND SIMILAR…