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Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, 2022 This research assessed the use of multimodal texts for vocabulary acquisition and retention of 18 EFL young learners from 6th grade aged between 11 and 12 years and enrolled in a primary school in Chile.
Pablo Aedo, Claudia Millafilo
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Voice matters: Students’ struggle to find voice
Reading & Writing, 2018 Often, at universities, it is assumed that students will automatically find their ‘voice’ after a period of exposure to the academic field. What is not understood fully are the struggles that students with different levels of preparedness have in finding
Toni Gennrich, Laura Dison
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An Analysis of the Features of Words That Influence Vocabulary Difficulty
Education Sciences, 2019 The two studies reported on in this paper examine the features of words that distinguish students’ performances on vocabulary assessments as a means of understanding what contributes to the ease or difficulty of vocabulary knowledge.
Elfrieda H. Hiebert +3 more
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Executive Functions’ Impact on Vocabulary and Verbal Fluency among Mono- and Bilingual Preschool-Aged Children [PDF]
Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2021 Background. The phenomenon of multilingualism and its impact on child development are in the spotlight of latter-day psychology, and of utmost importance both for theory and practice.
Maria S. Kovyazina +5 more
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The role of vocabulary knowledge on inference generation: A meta-analysis
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2021 Successful text comprehension results in a coherent mental model of the situation being described. To achieve this, the reader has to infer certain information by connecting parts of the text to their prior knowledge.
Sterpin Lucas Federico +3 more
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Infants’ Implicit Rhyme Perception in Child Songs and Its Relationship With Vocabulary
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Rhyme perception is an important predictor for future literacy. Assessing rhyme abilities, however, commonly requires children to make explicit rhyme judgements on single words.
Laura E. Hahn +5 more
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Emotioncy-Based Language Instruction: A Key to Enhancing EFL Learners' Vocabulary Retention [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2019 Given the vital role that vocabulary plays in learning a language along with the fact that sense-induced emotions are noteworthy due to their influence on cognition, this study examined the impact of emotioncy-based language instruction on the long-term ...
Haniyeh Jajarmi, Reza Pishghadam
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Fine Motor Skills and Lexical Processing in Children and Adults
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Children’s fine motor skills (FMS) link to cognitive development, however, research on their involvement in language processing, also with adults, is scarce.
Rebecca E. Winter +2 more
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Early communicative competences of infants and toddlers: A Slovenian study [PDF]
Psihološka Obzorja, 2013 Communicative competences develop rapidly in the periods of infanthood and toddlerhood, both from the qualitative and quantitative point of view. In the following study we aimed to analyse for the first time the age differences in early communication ...
Ljubica Marjanovič Umek +3 more
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Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2014 The paper is an overview of the structural features of the phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary of Yokohama Pidgin Japanese, an under researched contact language.
Andrei A. AVRAM
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