With English turning into a global language among the people in all parts of world, it has played similarly essential role educational system Azerbaijan. Vocabulary is vital and inseparable part four skills activity learning. This research was aimed at investigating use various vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) Azerbaijani engineering students. Moreover, overall frequency strategy explored ...

Vocabulary learning is central to reading ability and academic achievement. Vocabulary researchers and educators have viewed its essence as a process of associating the pronunciations and meanings of words in memory, and they have paid little attention to the contribution that spellings might make to vocabulary learning. We review theory and evidence showing that this is a serious oversight. On...

This study explored the acceleration of student vocabulary growth and reading comprehension proficiency through a multi-part instructional strategy for engendering the inductive, semantic word-family-oriented acquisition of vocabulary from context, a difficult task for elementary students. Implemented on a schoolwide basis for an academic year in grades 3-4-5, the intervention was a fourpart en...

We distinguish obscure writing from difficult writing, and argue that refereed journal publications in all disciplines can—and should—be written without undefined terminology, with identifiable claims, and with arguments for those claims. Conventional practices in mathematics, for instance, yield this outcome. There is a place for obscure writing—and potential value in obscure writing. But it w...

Vocabulary acquisition is one of the most challenging obstacles language learners must overcome. This is especially true for students wishing to study in overseas universities, where comprehension of academic texts is required. This dissertation evaluates the vocabulary teaching component of an intensive English teaching programme for students intending to enter universities in the U.S. It firs...

Children vary greatly in their vocabulary development during preschool years. Importantly, the pace of this early vocabulary growth predicts vocabulary size at school entrance. Despite its importance for later academic success, not much is known about the relation between individual differences in early vocabulary development and later brain structure and function. Here we examined the associat...

We present the development of a Norwegian Academic Wordlist (AKA list) for the Norwegian Bokmål variety. To identify specific academic vocabulary we developed a 100-million-word academic corpus based on the University of Oslo archive of digital publications. Other corpora were used for testing and developing general word lists. We tried two different methods, those of Carlund et al. (2012) and ...

BACKGROUND Socially disadvantaged children with academic difficulties at school entry are at increased risk for poor health and psychosocial outcomes. Our objective is to test the possibility that participation in childcare--at the population level--could attenuate the gap in academic readiness and achievement between children with and without a social disadvantage (indexed by low levels of mat...