vocabulary acquisition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvocabularyandacquisition
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vocabulary
noun
uk/vəˈkæb.jə.lər.i/us/voʊˈkæb.jə.ler.i/
all the words known and used by a ...
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acquisition
noun
uk/ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/us/ˌæk.wəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the process of ...
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(Definition ofvocabularyandacquisitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Cognitive components related tovocabularyacquisitionhave been the focus of relatively little research.
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Results underscore the potential importance of different facets of morphological awareness, as distinct from phonological processing skills, for understanding variability in earlyvocabularyacquisition.
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Affective aspects, which may have a positive impact onvocabularyacquisition, are also excluded.
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Vocabularyacquisitionproceeds item by item and, except with cognate words, cannot be expected to generalize across languages.
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Increased productivevocabularyacquisitionalso implies a much larger increase in recognition vocabulary, improving overall classroom language performance.
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Incidentalvocabularyacquisitionfrom oral and written dialogue journals.
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Moreover, the findings suggest that the notion of incidentalvocabularyacquisitionshould be broadened.
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Vocabularyacquisitionin a second language: do learners really acquire most vocabulary by reading?
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In spite of its evident role invocabularyacquisition, relatively little is known about the underlying cognitive processes.
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Apart from investigating particular classroom activities, some researchers have focused on the opportunities forvocabularyacquisitionoffered by classroom talk in general.
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Both are adaptable across languages and may be distinct features of morphological awareness in relation tovocabularyacquisition.
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Why did the modified output group consistently outperform the two input groups in comprehension andvocabularyacquisition?
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This paper analyses this problem in terms of bothvocabularyacquisitionand translation.
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Thus, we may expect to find consistent differences across caregivers speaking different languages which are related to these language-specific patterns ofvocabularyacquisition.
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Ability to segment a continuous stream of speech into discrete word units is an important precursor tovocabularyacquisition.
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However, the explicit association of morphological awareness tovocabularyacquisitionhas only rarely been investigated.
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In the present study, we have provided the first comprehensive evaluation of the role of parental input frequency in early (through 30 months)vocabularyacquisition.
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On this view, grey matter density in the posterior supramarginal parietal cortex is a neural marker forvocabularyacquisitionregardless of age and language.
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