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Bornstein, Marc H.; Haynes, Maurice O.; Painter, Kathleen M. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Investigated individual variation in child vocabulary competence, evaluating mothers' sociodemographics, personalities, and vocabulary and children's' gender, social competence, and vocabulary competence. Specific aspects of children and mothers accounted for variation in child vocabulary knowledge and use. Child's gender and social competence and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Demography, Individual Differences
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Gan, Siowck-Lee; And Others – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 1996
This study modeled teaching with a computer-based concordancer in a Teaching English-as-a-Second-Language program. Preservice teachers were randomly assigned to work with computer concordancing software or vocabulary exercises to develop word attack skills. Pretesting and posttesting indicated that computer concordancing was more effective in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Educational Technology, English (Second Language)
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Biemiller, Andrew; Slonim, Naomi – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Root word vocabulary was studied in two normative samples (English-speaking, wide socioeconomic range) and in an advantaged sample. Findings suggest that greater efforts should be made to foster vocabulary acquisition in the primary years, and that a rough vocabulary curriculum sequence can be identified for the elementary years. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Elementary Education, Individual Differences, Language Processing
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Uchikoshi, Yuuko – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
This study examines growth rates in vocabulary over an academic year for 150 Latino English language learners. In October, February, and June of kindergarten, participants completed standardized measures of receptive and expressive vocabulary. Before the second and third assessments, a third of the children watched Arthur three times a week during…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, Literacy, Vocabulary Skills
Pickard, Valerie – Hong Kong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1995
This concordance study uses a corpus of applied linguistic articles to explore how and why accomplished academic writers use quotations and citations, specifically the word 'say,' and analyses the lexical and grammatical choices they make. Citations were examined in almost 50,000 words from 11 articles to document use by experts writers. Overuse…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Applied Linguistics, Citations (References), College Students
Atkinson, Rhonda; And Others – 1993
Developed by the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, this fifth-grade level module teaches word attack skills for technical terms used by pipefitters, using word parts and root words. Basic information on structural analysis covers roots, prefixes and suffixes, its limitations, and defining words using structural analysis.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Building Trades, Definitions, Plumbing
Cleary, John – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This paper investigates the intentional creation of ambiguity by composers of cryptic crossword puzzles. Taking a research question of "what makes a cryptic clue more difficult to solve than a simple crossword clue," it compares a sample of cryptic and quick crosswords from "The Guardian" and attempts to isolate the linguistic…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Figurative Language
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on word skills, and offers 30 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students improve their use of vocabulary, different parts of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Process Approach (Writing)
Evans, Mary Ann; Kirchmann, Susanne – 1993
A study examined mothers' accuracy in predicting the responses their children would give and the scores they would achieve on two standardized vocabulary tests. Specifically, the study's primary purpose was to examine maternal estimates of both expressive and receptive vocabulary skills according to two indices: accuracy of total score and…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language, Foreign Countries
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1980
This individualized inservice packet on vocabulary development in the content areas aims to enable teachers to equip students with varied word recognition skills. It is one of a nine-part series of booklets--Teaching Teen Reading--in self-instructional format intended as a practical resource for teachers desiring condensed, readily usable answers…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Independent Study, Inservice Teacher Education
Ralston, Marion V. – 1993
With accounts of how telling children stories forged a special bond between teacher and child, this book provides practical guidance in the use of storytelling to enhance a language program, improve read-aloud sessions, develop oral and written communication skills, foster an appreciation of good literature, and stimulate the growth of active…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Folk Culture
Stasko, Mary I. – 1991
A practicum addressed the high percentage of students who were experiencing difficulty with reading comprehension and vocabulary retention in a fifth-grade Drop Out Prevention class by implementing a supplemental whole-language program. Subjects were 19 fifth-grade students. An informal reading inventory, an attitude survey, and academic grades…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Grade 5
Seong, Tae-Je; Subkoviak, Michael J. – 1987
The purpose of this research was to reinvestigate the accuracy of three item bias detection procedures: (1) Linn and Harnisch's pseudo-IRT(Z) method; (2) Camilli's chi-square technique; and (3) Angoff's revised transformed item difficulty method. These methods are applied when the minority group sample size is too small to obtain stable estimates…
Descriptors: Blacks, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Item Analysis
Allen, Sheilah – 1982
An experimental program was undertaken to determine the effects of attitude and reading achievement on writing, to ascertain if intervention could improve writing achievement and attitude, and to predict success in the program on the basis of an attitude inventory that measured need for structure and tolerance of ambiguity. Subjects were 15 boys…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Instructional Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
Tischler, Helene – 1982
Developed for use by students in an introductory accounting course, these learning modules deal with mastering the vocabulary of accounting. Focus of the modules is on vocabulary appearing in the first six chapters of the text, "Accounting Principles" by Niswonger and Fess. Covered in the individual modules are the following topics:…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Accounting, Banking Vocabulary, Business Education
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