This chapter explores variations in cognitive and social-emotional developmental outcomes among the 307 children who participated in the study. Cognitive development for infants and toddlers was assessed directly by researchers, and included early learning skills such as visual reception, fi ne motor, receptive vocabulary, and expressive vocabulary. For preschool-age children, cognitive develop...

this study has examined the effect of semantic mapping on learning vocabulary across genders. the researchers selected 120 intermediate students after the administration of a standard proficiency test. a vocabulary test was also used to measure the students’ vocabulary knowledge. the experimental group received semantic mapping in the pre-reading stage, butthe control group did not receive this...

This study investigates the predictive value of child-related and environmental characteristics for early lexical development. The German productive vocabulary of 51 2-year-olds (27 girls), assessed via parental report, was analyzed taking children's gender, the type of early care they experienced, and their mono- versus bilingual language composition into consideration. The children were from ...

Children vary widely in the rate at which they acquire words--some start slow and speed up, others start fast and continue at a steady pace. Do early developmental variations of this sort help predict vocabulary skill just prior to kindergarten entry? This longitudinal study starts by examining important predictors (socioeconomic status [SES], parent input, child gesture) of vocabulary growth b...

Creation of business vocabulary is the first step in business modelling and development of its supporting information systems. Current CASE tools still lack this capability. The goal of the paper is to allow integrating business vocabulary and business rules with business process models in CASE tools by providing UML profile for this purpose. The idea is demonstrated by a prototype implementing...

This research article discusses opportunities to develop lexical competencies in learning English with the students of higher education institutions specialized language based on a learner-centered approach. Pedagogical experiment was conducted at three Uzbekistan: Jizzakh State Institute, Termez University, Uzbekistan University World Languages 1st and 2nd year bachelor's degree. 463 from part...

Abstract: This paper describes a research which attempted to evaluate the effectiveness of student collaboration as technique in improving vocabulary development among group ESL learners. The main motivation behind this study was due concern that has become neglected area teaching English language. aims were whether helped improve students’ and extent improvement. Two types data collected durin...