Word Learning in Beginning Readers and Prereaders: Effects of Form Class and Defining Contexts.

Ehri, Linnea C.

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Publication Date: 1976

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Word Learning in Beginning Readers and Prereaders: Effects of Form Class and Defining Contexts

Ehri, Linnea C.

Journal of Educational Psychology, 68, 6, 832-42, Dec 76

In a paired associate task, readers and prereaders were taught five words as oral responses, each word paired with a distinctive nonsense figure. The results raise doubts about the effectiveness of teaching beginning readers sight vocabulary words printed on flash cards. (RC)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Paired Associate Learning, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Word Recognition

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