There are multiple ways to improve reading comprehension for English learners as a foreign language. Learning vocabulary is one of the it. It believed that more readers familiar with vocabulary, better they will understand what reading. suggested if learn and unknown words before read an essay. The morphological analysis was used extract from each sentence in text. extracted also classified by ...

Due to the explosive growth of technology, teachers are required integrate technology into classroom engage learners who regarded as digital natives. Digital storytelling can be an alternative medium for vocabulary learning. This case study examined how young perceived implementation during In-depth interviews and closed-ended questionnaires were employed investigate use in classroom. The sampl...

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCE AND DISORDERS • Volume 28 • 20–29 • Spring 2001 © NSSLHA 1092-5171/01/2801-0020 ABSTRACT: Spoken word recognition was investigated in a group of children aged 3:0 to 7:11 (years:months) to assess the relationship between five measures of language development and spoken word recognition accuracy. Two spoken word recognition tasks, gated words and nois...

The relation of language and emotion in development is most often thought about in terms of how language describes emotional experiences with words that name different feelings. However, children typically do not begin to use these words until language development is well underway, at approximately 2 years of age. Given the relatively small number of words for naming feelings and emotions, and ...

We examined early vocabulary development in children at familial risk (FR) of dyslexia and typically developing (TD) children between 17 and 35 months of age. We trained a support vector machine to classify TD and FR using these vocabulary data at the individual level. The Dutch version of the McArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (Words and Sentences) (N-CDI) was used to measure v...

BACKGROUND There is a dearth of assessments of sign language development in young deaf children. This study gathered age-related scores from a sample of deaf native signing children using an adapted version of the MacArthur-Bates CDI (Fenson et al., 1994). METHOD Parental reports on children's receptive and expressive signing were collected longitudinally on 29 deaf native British Sign Langua...

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...