The second test administered was The Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT) which, "required the child to name a pictured stimulus, providing a standardized measure of expressive vocabulary," (Kelley et al., 2006). ... The results of the tests showed that the ASD group performed equivalently to the TD group on the vocabulary portions. ... In the third study there were three groups (autism, typically developing (TD) children with receptive vocabulary, and TD children with nonverbal IQ). ... Out of those 59 participants, 18 were diagnosed with ASD with a mean age of 10.0...

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A study conducted by Rivera et al, using an iPad to create a digital story, demonstrated that it enhanced the vocabulary for students. "Mayer's (2005) multimedia theory can allow a learner to make faster connections between pictures and new vocabulary, enhancing the learning process.... Figure 1 is an example of an app that is a game, but allows for vocabulary to be learned while playing it. In the article, "The effects of an iPad® multimedia shared story intervention on vocabulary acquisition for an English language learner", the author mentioned that the use of iPads...

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Linguist John Swales describes discourse communities to be people who share the same set of goals, use specialist vocabulary, and use appropriate language relating to a shared interest within a certain subject or activity they expertise in. ... The English language I use day to day conflicts depending on who I am among and the activity or task I am accomplishing, my language and communicational vocabulary may not make sense to others however within each discourse community the vocabulary used helps to make each situation easier to manage and understand for all involved. ... As a student spec...

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In the experiment reported in chapter 6, sensitive testing revealed a considerable increase in E's vocabulary knowledge after she encountered target words that occurred two, three or four times in a German novella. ... However, direct vocabulary instruction does have an important role to play in making L2 reading more efficient for beginning learners. ... Simplified readers may also be a useful resource for learners who need to acquire high frequency vocabulary. ... Results on a variety of measures including vocabulary tests clearly favored the reading condition. 2.3 The War on Poverty ...

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Of particular interest was the vocabulary employed by the participants in defining their motives. ... This is clearly a symbolic interactionist perspective as the vocabulary adopted for motive is consistent with the social meaning, which derives from a constant process of symbolic communication between actors. ... That is, the vocabulary perceived as a motive for one group may not be for another. ... Through a series of adopting roles and internal dialogue, the motives employed and the vocabulary used illustrate a constant and formative process. ...

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One of them is my limited vocabulary. ... I hope to solve my writing problems by working with a vocabulary log and reading more essays, novels and poems, indeed. ... Nevertheless, never will this goal be achieved unless I do not give up on practicing writing and learning new vocabulary whenever I have a chance to do so....

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The rhythmic and repetitive chants work best when the readings which contain predictable and decodable vocabulary. Followed by shared reading with the teacher, students begin to pay more attention to vocabulary and the decoding strategies used for relevant words found in texts. ... In conjunction with the child's knowledge of the language system and benefits of shared reading exercises, students begin to gain awareness of symbols and print conventions, while constructing meaning from texts, develop stronger print and phonemic connections, and teach frequently used vocabulary and fluency t...

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In particular, she exhibits a lower vocabulary and language proficiency than that of her peers. ... The symbolic function substage is characterized by language development, particularly vocabulary, pragmatics and grammar, as a milestone of cognitive development. ... By the age of six, Kathleen should have a vocabulary of 2,500 words, up from 1,000 at three years of age. ... Therefore, Kathleen missed accumulating vocabulary and linguistic competencies from the daily activities that should have been guided by her mother (Chittleborough, Lawlor, and Lynch, 2011). Indeed, children at this age acc...

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In order to get the student on level, it is critical to address the following components of reading: Phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary instruction and other diverse strategies. ... Phonics serves as the basis for transitioning into vocabulary instruction. Vocabulary instruction for the ELL student must however be inclusive of both academic and social vocabulary and can be taught effectively through graphic organizers, natural conversation, and modeling. ...

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Joyce's vocabulary is also limited to simple words that a boy of Stephen's age would understand. ... Stephen's vocabulary, also seems to grow, as harder words are introduced to the work. ...

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Ghanta's article is written mostly in passive voice, using an abundance of scientific vocabulary that many have not seen or used before, making it very difficult to stay interested and keep reading. ... Although Ghanta changed the layout of the typical scientific paper in a fairly creative way, his passive voice coupled with an abundance of difficult scientific vocabulary make his article very difficult to get through. ...

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'Children aged three and coming from families that had a high annual income have a 50% greater span of vocabulary than children coming from the poorest families. By age 5, the vocabulary span of children from the richest families had increased by 3% in the test (from 58% to 61%) while the vocabulary span of children from the poorest families had remained the same as when they were three, with 38% scored on the tests taken' (Hill, 2015). This can be attributed to the parents' use of restricted language and vocabulary, as well as their subsequent poor attitude to academic learnin...

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For instance, by as a result of efficient familiar words processing, children aged as low as 2 years who fall under high SES tend to have superior expressive vocabularies than their counterparts who fall under low SES. ... Lastly, the interrelation between language and the society can also be looked at by exploring how various language vocabularies varies by societies. According to Lado (2009) for instance, lost bread expression to mean French toast is a translation of pain perdu in France, part of Southern Luciana vocabulary. ...

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Slavic languages are very similar in a number of ways – the alphabet, grammar and vocabulary are close to identical when comparing, for example, Ukrainian, Russian and Belarus languages. ... Differences between Russian and its closest relatives lie mostly in the vocabulary. ... Another important difference to be taken into account is the borrowed vocabulary. ...

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The other category of standards, HIT interoperability relies on is clinical terminology or medical vocabularies. ... Its a comprehensive, multilingual computerized vocabulary of medical terms. ... SNOMED CT was chosen by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and CMS as one of the main vocabularies for Meaningful Use Stage 2, including and health information exchange. ...

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Newspeaks cardinal rule commands that with the limitation of common vocabulary, it follows that "what cannot be said, then cannot be thought.... Cutting out, destroying, eliminating, and even vaporizing the common vocabulary of the masses which serves as a tool to narrow, and objectify the reflections of thoughts. ... The language aims for simpleton vocabulary, but "simplicity is complexity"-- it cannot condense abstract topics into concrete language. ...

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Grammatical knowledge can be acquired effectively by understanding all aspect of language such as phonology, vocabulary, morphology, syntax and discourse. ... While vocabulary or lexicon related to word meaning, pronunciation, grammatical category (part of speech), and possible occurrence in combination with other words and idioms. ... Developing grammatical knowledge of L2 can be achieved effectively by comprehend all aspect of language such as phonology, morphology, vocabulary, discourse, and syntax. ...

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Men and women also differ from one another in the choice and use of the vocabulary. In general, the vocabulary of women are much richer and more detailed than men, appropriately exposing their sensitive feelings. ...

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The blend was successful because the students were able to use a subject such as science and use the content as to read and write using academic vocabulary as well as learn the science concepts. It was so successful that the students were heard around the school using their expanded vocabulary and saying how they were no longer in ELD classes. ...

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For successful intercultural communication a person should know about the culture of an interlocutor, but maybe even that is not enough. To translate correctly and first of all to understand what your interlocutor is talking about, you should think as him/her. So as we can see the intercultural com...

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The blend was successful because the students were able to use a subject such as science and use the content as to read and write using academic vocabulary as well as learn the science concepts. It was so successful that the students were heard around the school using their expanded vocabulary and saying how they were no longer in ELD classes. ...

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Further, he demonstrated that 60 per cent of the pupils he studies had insufficient reading ability to deal with the large beginning vocabulary loads of bookkeeping textbooks; he suggested that there was need for better texts, more emphasis upon discussion, and slower teacher presentation. ...

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This letter was written by a man who was sick and tired of seeing African Americans becoming acquired to feeling like their nobodies or outsiders in a world where the phrase "all men are created equal" was being preached everyday. For over 350 years African Americans have been denied there constitu...

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They learn paradigms such as verb conjugations, and they learn the native language equivalents of vocabulary words. ... If we compare the areas of language emphasised we can see that in the Grammar-Translation Method vocabulary and grammar are more important and reading and writing are the primary skills. ... In the Direct Method vocabulary is the most significant and as for the skills, speaking is the main one although reading, writing and listening also occurs from the start. ...

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Black and White Test Score Comparison African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics test, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. ... If black and white children spoke relatively different languages, as some aspects on English claim, on might expect black and white children with vocabularies of equal size to know somewhat different words. In that case of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test show much larger black white gaps than others. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R) was ...

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