We examined the vocabulary growth of lexical categories in 719 children (age 13–24 months) as part of a longitudinal cohort study (the STEPS Study) and found a discrepancy in how these categories were ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

This study linked background TV and socioeconomic status (SES) to minority children’s Persian vocabulary development. To this end, 80 Iranian preschool children (aged 5–6 years old) from two minority ...

Dianna Townsend, Ed.D., professor of literacy studies, plays a crucial role as a co-principal investigator in the Institute of Education Science (IES) grant titled "Words as Tools: Vocabulary ...

Vocabulary encompasses the words that an individual knows and can use conveniently in a language. Words are the powerhouse of any language, and a person with a narrow vocabulary will likely sound ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? All educators in all subjects have to teach vocabulary. If our students don’t know the meanings of the ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? We started-off in Part One with suggestions from Katie Brown, Jane Fung, Marilee Sprenger and Karen ...

1 Oranim Academic College of Education, Kiryat Tevo’n, Israel. 2 The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. 3 Center for Educational Technology, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1.1. Academic Vocabulary and ...