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ERIC Number: EJ289060
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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Vocabulary Learning.
Jenkins, Joseph R.; Dixon, Robert
Contemporary Educational Psychology, v8 n3 p237-60 Jul 1983
The question of how to account for the growth of vocabulary knowledge that occurs during the elementary school years is addressed. Areas examined include the ways that word meanings are communicated, direct teaching of meanings, vocabulary instruction as part of reading instruction, and deriving and learning word meanings from verbal context. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Mnemonics, Predictor Variables, Reading Instruction, Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Word Lists
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Keyword Method (Language Learning)