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Profiling vocabulary acquisition in Irish

Journal of Child Language, 2011
ABSTRACTInvestigations into early vocabulary development, including the timing of the acquisition of nouns, verbs and closed-class words, have produced conflicting results, both within and across languages. Studying vocabulary development in Irish can contribute to this area, as it has potentially informative features such as a VSO word order, and ...
O'Toole, Ciara, Fletcher, Paul
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Linking working memory and long-term memory: A computational model of the learning of new words [PDF]

, 2007
The nonword repetition (NWR) test has been shown to be a good predictor of children’s vocabulary size. NWR performance has been explained using phonological working memory, which is seen as a critical component in the learning of new words.
Baddeley A.D., Bates E., Brown G.D.A., Case R., Chi M.T.H., Conrad R., Croker S., De Groot A.D., Dunn L.M., Freudenthal D., Freudenthal D., Freudenthal D., Freudenthal D., Freudenthal D., Gathercole S.E., Gathercole S.E., Gathercole S.E., Gathercole S.E., Gathercole S.E., Gobet F., Jones G., Jones G., Jones G., Lane P.C.R., Masoura E.V., Munson B., Munson B., Nagy W.E., Page M.P.A., Papagno C., Richman H.B., Roy P., Ruchkin D.S., Schneider W., Theakston A.L., Treiman R., Zhang G.   +36 more
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Acquisition of meaning in bilingual children: Interference, translation and errors

Topics in Linguistics, 2018
Even though the process of the acquisition of phonology and syntax in bilingual children resembles that of monolinguals, vocabulary acquisition in bilingual children heavily depends on the input in each language. Bialystok (2004, p.
Klapicová Edita Hornáčková
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Increasing Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention in EFL Young Learners through the Use of Multimodal Texts (Memes)

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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Utilizing student-generated pictures for formative vocabulary instruction

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2012
Contemporary vocabulary learning strategies focus on the learner. This may overlook the effect good classroom instruction, such as formative feedback, can have on acquisition.
Charles J. Anderson
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Vocabulary learning through listening: comparing L2 explanations, teacher codeswitching, contrastive focus-on form and incidental learning [PDF]

, 2020
This study explored the teaching and learning of vocabulary through listening among 137 senior high-school EFL learners in China. It compared different types of Lexical Focus-on-Form delivered to four treatment groups: post-listening vocabulary ...
Anderson J.R., Breeze R., Lee J.F., Ministry of Education (MoE), Pellicer-Sánchez A., Pengchong Zhang, Silver R.E., Suzanne Graham, Tian L.   +8 more
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An Eye-tracking Study on the Influence of Attention and Working Memory on Incidental Acquisition of Chinese Vocabulary

SAGE Open
In order to explore the cognitive mechanisms and processing involved in incidental vocabulary acquisition, this study examines whether two crucial cognitive factors, attention and working memory, influence incidental vocabulary acquisition during second ...
Jiawei Wang, Jun Wang
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Variasi Kosakata Bahasa Ibu dalam Pemerolehan Bahasa Anak Balita di Desa Marga Dauh Puri, Kabupaten Tabanan: Kajian Psikolinguistik

Humanis, 2019
This research is entitled "Vocabulary of Mother Language Variations in Acquiring Toddler Language in Marga Dauh Puri Village, Tabanan Regency: Psycholinguistic Study." The purpose of this study was to find out vocabulary categories, word variations, and ...
Ni Made Adi Anggaraeni, I Nyoman Suparwa
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The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
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Vocabulary learning beliefs and strategies of Afghan EFL undergraduate learners

Cogent Education, 2023
It is widely perceived that vocabulary learning is essential in second and foreign language acquisition. Vocabulary learning beliefs (VLB) and vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) are factors that affect both second language acquisition (SLA) and first ...
Saifurrahman Rahmani
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