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  2. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    By age 10, children's vocabulary development through reading moves away from learning concrete words to learning abstract words. [ 69 ] Generally, both conversation and reading involve at least one of the four principles of context that are used in word learning and vocabulary development: physical context, prior knowledge, social context and ...

  3. Vocabulary learning - Wikipedia

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    Vocabulary learning types and low-frequency are important components in a vocabulary teaching program. The two major types of vocabulary learning are deliberate and low-frequency. It is important to treat these types as complementary -rather than mutually exclusive- by using different vocabulary learning strategies and their combinations.

  4. Language learning strategies - Wikipedia

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    Language learning strategies is a term referring to the actions that are consciously deployed by language learners to help them learn or use a language more effectively. [1] [2] They have also been defined as "thoughts and actions, consciously chosen and operationalized by language learners, to assist them in carrying out a multiplicity of tasks from the very outset of learning to the most ...

  5. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Two more crucial elements of vocabulary acquisition are word segmentation and statistical learning (described above). Word segmentation, or the ability to break down words into syllables from fluent speech can be accomplished by eight-month-old infants. [47] By the time infants are 17 months old, they are able to link meaning to segmented words ...

  6. Fast mapping - Wikipedia

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    By the age of adulthood, bilingual individuals have acquired word-learning strategies believed to be of assistance on fast mapping tasks. [18] One example is speech practice, a strategy where the participant listens and reproduces the word in order to assist in remembering and decrease the likelihood of forgetting . [ 19 ]

  7. Lexical approach - Wikipedia

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    On the smaller end, the lexical approach refers to teaching practices where vocabulary learning sets the preliminary ground for further language learning. Paul Nation , Laufer and others have been influential in this field, with various techniques to quickly expand the student's vocabulary mostly via vocabulary list learning.

  8. Content-based instruction - Wikipedia

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    As educators realized that in order to successfully complete an academic task, second language (L2) learners have to master both English as a language form (grammar, vocabulary etc.) and how English is used in core content classes, they started to implement various approaches such as Sheltered instruction and learning to learn in CBI classes ...

  9. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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    4. Go back to 1 and 2, mix in 3, practice (X-Y-Z; Z-Y-X; Y-Y-Z, etc.) and continue building up to an appropriate number of Elements (maybe as many as 20 per lesson, depending on the student, see B.1), practising all possible combinations and repeating 5-20 times each combination. B. Student-Led Limits: 1.