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Inferring Word-Meaning, Morpheme-Based, And Word-Based Second Language Vocabulary Teaching Methodologies, Qingli Liu

Masters Theses

In this study, an experiment was conducted to compare the three teaching methods: the inferring word-meaning method, the morpheme-based teaching method, and the word-based teaching method. The results showed that students taught by the inferring word-meaning method outperformed both the students taught by the morpheme-based method and the word-based method in terms of word retention. The possible reason is that the inferring word-meaning section enabled students to pay attention to and spend more time on each word. On the other hand, the disadvantage of the inferring word-meaning method is that it might not be an efficient way to teach a …

A Comparison Of Vocabulary Learning From Joint Reading Of Narrative And Informational Books With Dual Language Learner Children, Deborah Bergman Deitcher

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

A Comparison of Vocabulary Learning From Joint Reading of

Narrative and Informational Books With Dual Language Learner Children

By: Deborah Bergman Deitcher

Advisor: Professor Helen L. Johnson

This study examined joint reading of narrative and informational texts in the home setting, between parents and their English-Hebrew dual language learning preschool children. Parent-child dyads were video-recorded while reading two sets of books; each set contained one narrative and one informational text on the same theme. Children's target word learning of 48 target words (12 words per book) of varying difficulty levels was measured from pretest to posttest. Results showed that children …

The Implementation Of Tpr-Games And Imagery For The Enhancement Of A1 Vocabulary In Kindergarten At Francisco De Paula Santander School, Juan Carlos Acevedo Fontecha, Evelia Rocío Cano Moreno, Jenny Marlody Rodríguez Fiquitiva, Alejandro Bradley Sánchez

Licenciatura en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras

La política lingüística de Colombia sobre el Plan Nacional de Bilingüismo requiere que los estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera alcancen ciertos niveles de dominio del inglés a lo largo de sus períodos escolares y universitarios. Con el fin de mejorar el nivel de inglés en un grupo de niños de jardín de infantes, este estudio de investigación propone una implementación de juegos e imágenes TPR para mejorar el vocabulario A1. Este estudio de investigación toma en consideración diferentes conceptos tales como TPR, políticas educativas, aprendizaje y enseñanza de inglés como lengua extranjera, adquisición del primer y segundo idioma, imágenes, …