Children learned novel verb meanings better when words were experienced in episodes built around a common scenario¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Children better learned the meaning of new verbs when exposed in episodes built around a common scenario than in other exposure conditions. → Nation 2017

Evidence¶

Nation 2017¶

Nation, K. (2017). Nurturing a lexical legacy: reading experience is critical for the development of word reading skill. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-017-0004-7

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review reports a training experiment (citing Chilton and Ehri, ref 43) in which "children better learned the meaning of new verbs when they were experienced in episodes built around a common scenario". The review attributes this to contextual experience promoting semantic connections between words; no effect size is printed.

"a recent training experiment found that children better learned the meaning of new verbs when they were experienced in episodes built around a common scenario"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Vocabulary — outcome: instruction changes it

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