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 ...

High-quality teacher-child interactions in early learning environments have been regarded as a key contributor to children’s early language and cognitive development in international scholarships.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...