Reading to young, pre-literate children is associated with better language and reading outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. The goal of this work is to better understand the potential mechanisms. We hypothesized that vocabulary diversity and sentence complexity might vary between picture books and child-directed speech, and we wanted to quantify those potential differe...

Introduction The current pre-test post-test study explored the use of WhatsApp for vocabulary acquisition inside and outside English as a Foreign Language classroom. Methods Native Arabic undergraduate students learned items both classroom using groups. Pre- post-tests gauged participants, knowledge used in intervention well control items. An additional questionnaire participants' satisfaction ...

It is an unsolved issue of how to increase the vocabulary of primary school students in Chinese reading in Singapore. According to the results from previous studies, one of the criteria of achieving independent reading is that students are able to read texts with at least 95% accuracy. The potential reasons for the current situation may be little exposure to Chinese reading after class, low rea...

many textbooks include semantically related words and sometimes teachers add synonyms, antonyms, etc. to the words in order to present new vocabulary items without questioning the possible effects. this study sought to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through synonym, semantically unrelated, and hyponym sets based on higa’s (1963) proposed continuum. a total of 120 iranian intermed...

Vocabulary learning has been traditionally considered central to second language learning. It may take place either intentionally, by means of deliberate attempts commit factual information memory, or incidentally, as a consequence other cognitive processes involving comprehension. Video games, which have extensively employed in educational contexts understand lexical development foreign langua...

this study aimed at examining the relationship between emotional intelligence (ei) and learning english language vocabulary. the male (n= 119) and female (n= 98) participants who were randomly selected from high schools in zanjan province were asked to complete a persian version of an emotional intelligence (ei) questionnaire and answer a vocabulary achievement test. the ei questionnaire consis...

This paper describes the system submitted by the Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble (LIG) for the fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. We participated to the news shared translation task for the French-English language pair. We investigated differents techniques to simply deal with Out-Of-Vocabulary words in a statistical phrase-based machine translation system and analyze thei...

Two studies on the role of video on vocabulary learning were conducted in kindergarten classrooms wit h substantial numbers of children from low-income and Dual Language Learning (DLL) backgrounds. In the first study (n = 78), the effect of video viewing was compared with the effect of book reading on vocabulary learning. In the second study (n = 89), the effect of repeated viewing of video was...