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The Effect Of Study Trips Followed By Discussion On Vocabulary Development Of Kindergarten Pupils, Lydia Kraus
The Effect Of Study Trips Followed By Discussion On Vocabulary Development Of Kindergarten Pupils, Lydia Kraus
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
It was the purpose of this study to determine the effect of study trips and subsequent discussion on the vocabulary of kindergarten pupils from three social groups in Madora County.
Seventy-nine pupils, selected from three classrooms in three rural school districts, were classified as middle-class Anglo-American, lower-class Anglo-American, and lower-class Mexican-American. Two of the three classes were designated as experimental and one as the control class.
The instructional design, twelve study trips (one each week) and ensuing discussions, encourage pupils to use new words and develop and expand the meanings of words.
The major source of data was the Watts …