Children and adults often find it difficult to learn basic foreign language vocabulary through conventional teaching methods. This is especially true for blind learners, who lack the benefit of environmental cues. While sighted individuals gain valuable information by noting the position of objects and their association with other objects (e.g., clock on the wall, chairs with the table, etc.), ...

This meta-analysis examines the effects of vocabulary interventions on pre-K and kindergarten children’s oral language development. The authors quantitatively reviewed 67 studies and 216 effect sizes to better understand the impact of training on word learning. Results indicated an overall effect size of .88, demonstrating, on average, a gain of nearly one standard deviation on vocabulary measu...

______________________ This study examines the relationship among access to reading materials, print exposure, and vocabulary acquisition among language minority (LM) students in United States. Access to print, print exposure, and English vocabulary knowledge were measured through the use of surveys and signal-detection checklists with a group of Spanish/English bilingual high school students (...

This study reports on the differences in motivation, vocabulary gain, and perceptions on using or the Google Docs between individual and collaborative learning at a tertiary level. Two classes of English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) students were recruited and each class was randomly assigned into one of the two groups individuals or collaborators. The results of the study are in line with those...