Exploring Psychology
Ninth Edition ©2014
David G Myers
http://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/static/worth/myersbridge
CHAPTER 9 : THINKING AND LANGUAGE > Language Development
p. 384
How many words did you learn during the years between your first birthday and your high school graduation?
The answer is about 60,000 (Bloom, 2000; McMurray, 2007).
That averages (after age 1) to nearly 3500 words each year, or nearly 10 each day!
Bloom, P. (2000). How children learn the meanings of words.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
McMurray, B. (2007). Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion. Science,
317, 631.
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Children can learn 860 words per year (That’s 2 words a day!)
http://www.georgialiteracy.org
eBook of Vocabulary Teaching and Learning Research
http://www.cuc.edu.ve/upc/PNFT/INGLES/Teaching_and_Learning_Vocabulary.pdf
A Focus On Vocabulary:
http://www.prel.org/products/re_/ESO419.htm ???????????
Effective Instructional Strategies Series
Teaching Vocabulary Explicitly
By Susan Hanson and Jennifer F.M. Padua
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
© PREL 2011
http://prel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/vocabulary_lo_res.pdf
http://prel.org/resources/effective-instructional-strategies-series
Dec 17, 2010
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/vocabulary-instruction-teaching-tips-rebecca-alber
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/vocabulary_tips.htm
How to learn vocabulary
http://esl.fis.edu/learners/advice/vocab.htm
5 Tips for Helping Students to Really Learn Vocabulary
https://oupeltglobalblog.com/2011/08/16/5-tips-for-helping-students-to-really-learn-vocabulary/
Why Teach Vocabulary?
http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/EPS/media/Site-Resources/Downloads/articles/Why_Teach_Vocabulary.pdf
http://www.jocrf.org/resources/vocabulary/fun-vocabulary-resources
http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/05/vocabulary-size
https://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/07/vocabulary
testyourvocab.com
http://testyourvocab.com/blog/2013-05-10-Summary-of-results
17,100
By year 1, children are capable of understaing up to approx 20000 words
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
http://slideplayer.com/slide/8708354
Learning words:
6 yrs 15,000 words
As many as 8 new words per day
http://slideplayer.com/slide/5228774
http://www.thinkmap.com
https://www.vocabulary.com/about
https://www.quora.com/How-many-words-does-an-average-English-speaker-know
The Guardian, 12 August 1986, cited in David Crystal, The English Language, 2002, p46
vocabulary growth
related:
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/mastery-of-a-new-skill-takes-in-average-20-separate-instances-of-practice
Word Wizardry: Vocabulary Enhancement in Early Childhood, Prek Through Grade 1
38:53 Five helpful building blocks for an effective EFL literacy program
Isabel L. Beck & Margaret G. McKeown