The use of multimedia story applications on touch-interactive mobile devices has become prevalent in early education settings. However, despite the promise of multimedia story applications for early l...
The purpose of this study was to provide both businesses and institutions of higher education with a descriptive analysis of the programs of five companies that have utilized community colleges in the...
The purpose of this study was to determine if third-grade students could learn vocabulary incidentally through silent reading and by listening to stories read aloud as well as which method would produ...
The purpose of this study is to examine the ability of undergraduate international students to use context clues and grammatical classes to identify unfamiliar words from context. It investigates the ...
The present study tried to investigate the use of Short Message Service (SMS) as a new way to skimming and guessing strategies awareness in reading comprehension, beyond the confines of classroom. To ...
The present study examines the effect that annotation type has on L2 incidental vocabulary retention in a multimedia reading setting. Three annotation types were compared: text-only, picture-only, and...
The paper discusses how dictionary consultation during text comprehension varies according to dictionary users' prior knowledge of a word and of the concept it represents. Four types of consultation a...
The orientation of this review is intensely practical. It is an attempt to describe what we know and what we need to learn in order to build vocabulary programs that are based on reasonably accurate e...
The learning of a new language remains to this date a cognitive task that requires considerable diligence and willpower, recent advances and tools notwithstanding. In this paper, we propose Broccoli, ...
The authors evaluated the effect of listening to stories on children's vocabulary growth. Forty-seven children listened to 2 stories read to them in a small-group setting on 3 occasions, each 1 week a...
Testing the Distributional Hypothesis: The Influence of Context on Judgements of Semantic Similarity Scott McDonald (scottm@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Michael Ramscar (michael@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Institute for Com...
THE PROCESS of acquiring word meaning from context was investigated for high- and lowability children. Fifth-grade children were given a task that tested their ability to derive the meaning of an unkn...
THE AUTHORS investigated how text features may influence the amount of vocabulary knowledge acquired incidentally while reading expositions. Three sets of text features were identified from studies on...
Summary The effects of an instructional programme for deriving word meanings from the context and through morphological analysis for grade 4 primary‐school pupils with poor versus average reading comp...
Second language researchers and trainers have met with some success in teaching language learners the skill of inferring meaning from context while reading, using a variety of teaching methods. This p...
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the process of establishing the meaning of a new word from a single encounter. Reading is a process of acquiring a meaningful message from written text. Yet, r...
PURPOSE This article describes a program that was designed to help upper elementary students read and understand words as they read texts independently. As a first step in helping middle-to-upper elem...
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Mnemonic techniques are mental procedures used to facilitate the memorization, storage and recall of information. They rely on elaborated associations and imagery or verbal interactions between the to...
Measures of semantic similarity between concepts are widely used in Natural Language Processing. In this article, we show how six existing domain-independent measures can be adapted to the biomedical ...