Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ547492
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
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Lexical Meaning in the Multilingual Classroom: The Word-Weaving Project.
McWilliam, Norah
Language, Culture and Curriculum, v10 n1 p14-29 1997
Reports on a project in the United Kingdom identifying strategies to manage classroom discourse in ways designed to give words and their meanings particular kinds of attention in order to foster vocabulary development in children studying English as an additional language. Notes that in this project, target word-meanings related to learning objectives were explored. (21 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Second Language Instruction, Semantics, Student Reaction, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Word Recognition
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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