Number-Concept Acquisition and General Vocabulary Development

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Vocabulary Acquisition through Frequency Exposure via Reading

RUNNING HEAD: ORTHOGRAPHY AND VOCABULARY ACQUISITION Orthographic facilitation in oral vocabulary acquisition

An experiment investigated whether exposure to orthography facilitates oral vocabulary learning. Fifty-eight typically developing children aged 8-9 years were taught 12 nonwords. Children were trained to associate novel phonological forms with pictures of novel objects. Pictures were used as referents to represent novel word meanings. For half of the nonwords children were additionally exposed ...

Language development and acquisition in children

Language acquisition is a natural developmental process and is unique to Homo sapiens in which a child acquiring his or her mother tongue as a first language.  The simplest theory of language development is that children learn language by imitating adult language. A second possibility is that children acquire language through conditioning. Noam Chomsky put forward innateness hypothesis. Piaget ...

Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition of Verbs

This paper describes a computational implementation of an algorithm to define an ”unknown” verb based on the information in the context it appears in and any applicable background knowledge that the reader brings to bear. First, it describes some related research that has taken place and how it may be applied to the Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition (CVA) project. Next, it describes the process...