vocabulary comprehension
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvocabularyandcomprehension
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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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comprehension
noun
uk/ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːm.prəˈhen.ʃən/
the ability to understand completely and be familiar with a situation, ...
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(Definition ofvocabularyandcomprehensionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In this study, two experimenter assessments of child vocabulary competence were used : the normed score ofvocabularycomprehensionand the normed score of vocabulary expression.
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They were matched with three control groups for morphological production, expressive vocabulary, andvocabularycomprehension.
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As expected, we did not find infants' use of coordinated joint attention at 9 months predictive of earlyvocabularycomprehension.
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Specifically, distinct slow and fast acquisition groups emerged for bothvocabularycomprehensionand production.
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From a substantive standpoint, we were also interested to see whether the same gender differences would be observed forvocabularycomprehensionand production.
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Individual differences in developmental trajectories ofvocabularycomprehensionand production were explored using two analytic approaches.
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The patterns ofvocabularycomprehensionand production of the subjects in our study were broadly similar to the pattern of normative data.
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Table 1 shows the correlations forvocabularycomprehensionand production for the final 89-word set.
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The inductive approach also identified atypical patterns in the developmental relation betweenvocabularycomprehensionand production.
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Furthermore, parent report ofvocabularycomprehensionat 12 months did not correlate with infant engagement at 12 months or with language at 30 months.
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Loschky found positive effects of negotiated interactions onvocabularycomprehensionbut not on acquisition or retention.
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Only 20 percent of teachers' utterances focused on language development; 95 percent of those language-related utterances was devoted to issues related to pronunciation andvocabularycomprehension.
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In fact, it was not possible to uncover a single statistic used by all studies for the same measure, not even forvocabularycomprehensionand production.
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Taken together the child-directed speech composite in this study explained approximately ten additional percentage points of the variance in childvocabularycomprehensionabove and beyond children's earlier vocabulary abilities.
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Vocabularycomprehension, proficiency, and reading and writing abilities are developed as the student progresses and fluency is acquired.
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