A meta-analysis of 21 instructional treatments aimed at enhancing the skill of deliberately deriving word meaning from context during reading shows a medium effect size of 0.43 standard deviation ...

This study investigated incidental learning of word meanings from context during normal reading. A total of 352 students in third, fifth, and seventh grades read either expository or narrative ...

The film features a conversation between two individuals discussing the hobby of collecting words and their meanings. The dialogue emphasizes the importance of understanding word meanings to improve ...

As a member of the Jean Cocteau Repertory Company, Craig Smith has been doing the classics for 30 years, but he never had any formal training at college. "My degree is in speech and theatre, and I ...

The study is based on words only in English. But it’s a step along the way to working out how the brain stores words in its language library, says neurosurgeon Ziv Williams at the Massachusetts ...

BABIES COME into the world seeking out comfort, so their first word is often “mama”. It is easy to say and reflects the bond of mother and child. Meanwhile those leaving this world often make a ...