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ERIC Number: EJ1260479
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1081-3004
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Adolescent Learning of Academic Vocabulary in Iceland
Ólafsdóttir, Sigríður; Laster, Barbara; Stefánsson, Kristján K.
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v64 n1 p79-87 Jul-Aug 2020
The fields of vocabulary instruction, literacy professional development, and global language issues framed this research. Situated in Iceland, the intervention consisted of professional development for 10th-grade teachers focused on academic words in various subject materials, increasing the learners' proficiency in using explicit strategies to detect word meanings, and offering learners multimodal ways of working with the vocabulary. There were no significant differences between the participants in the experimental schools (n = 157) and in the control schools (n = 88). There were gains from pretest to posttest in vocabulary and in comprehension, and there were some promising trends that distinguished the experimental group from the control group on the reading comprehension test. The nature, intensity, and length of the professional development offered to the high school teachers and the relatively short time of measurement of student outcomes are suggested explanations of the results. [Funding for this research was provided by the Fulbright Foundation/US State Department Specialist Program.]
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 10
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Language: English
Sponsor: US Department of State
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Identifiers - Location: Iceland
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