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Vocabulary Volume: A New Metric for Assessing Vocabulary Knowledge

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2022
Dolça Tellols, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hikaru Yokono   +2 more
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Teaching for breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge: Learning from explicit and implicit instruction and the storybook texts

Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2019
This paper reports results from two studies conducted to examine word learning among preschool children in group book reading while we developed a scalable method of teaching words during book reading.
David K. Dickinson, K. Nesbitt, Molly F. Collins, E. Hadley, K. Newman, Bretta L. Rivera, Hande Ilgez, A. Nicolopoulou, R. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek   +9 more
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Vocabulary Knowledge and Acquisition

Advances in Humanities Research
This essay is written to promote effective vocabulary teaching for Chinese English teachers. Vocabulary is an important part of English learning in primary school, and it is also important for students to focus on memorizing during the learning process.
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Improving Elementary Grade Students’ Science and Social Studies Vocabulary Knowledge Depth, Reading Comprehension, and Argumentative Writing: a Conceptual Replication

Educational Psychology Review, 2021
James S. Kim, J. Relyea, Mary A. Burkhauser, Ethan Scherer, Patrick Rich   +4 more
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Sharing knowledge: Starting with the integration of vocabularies

1993
This paper addresses the knowledge sharing problem from an operational perspective: how and when can one use somebody else's knowledge. It proposes the implementation of some control mechanism over the knowledge acquisition process. This limits the expressiveness of the notation but will improve the shareability of knowledge structures among different ...
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Assessing Partial Knowledge in Vocabulary

Journal of Educational Measurement, 1987
This study reports an attempt to assess partial knowledge in vocabulary. Fifty multiple‐choice vocabulary items were constructed so that the incorrect choices followed the stages of vocabulary acquisition defined by O'Connor (1940). Ability estimates based on Rasch dichotomous and polychotomous models were compared to determine if there were any gains ...
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Modelling and Assessing Vocabulary Knowledge

2007
Over the last 20 years vocabulary research has grown from a Cinderella subject to a position of some importance. Vocabulary is now considered integral to just about every aspect of language knowledge and is a lively and vital area of research and innovation.
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Measuring Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

2019
Depth of vocabulary knowledge is typically defined as how well a word is known. Thus, measuring depth of vocabulary knowledge should tell us how well test takers know words. The importance of knowing vocabulary deeply is based mainly on two ideas: (1) L2 learners have to know different aspects of word knowledge in order to fulfill communicative tasks ...
Akifumi Yanagisawa, Stuart Webb
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Assessment of Vocabulary Knowledge

2022
Lawrence J. Zwier, Frank Boers
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Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading

Academic Therapy, 1989
The most effective vocabulary instruction approaches are those that involve semantic elaboration and semantic fit; some examples are included in this article.
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