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- Title
IT'S NOT ALL GREEK TO ME: TEACHING WORD PARTS AND WORD PART STRATEGY TO INTERMEDIATE PASIFIKA STUDENTS.
- Authors
Beaumont, Julia; Erlam, Rosemary
- Abstract
This paper presents research evidence to suggest that there is a strong link between vocabulary knowledge and academic success at school. It reviews studies that have investigated the impact of teaching vocabulary and word learning strategies on reading ability (Baumann et. ah, 2002, 2003). It then describes an experimental study, inspired by Baumann et al, and implemented in an intermediate school in Auckland targeting a group of students who were identified as experiencing reading difficulties. The intervention involved the teaching of Greek and Latin word parts, and word part strategy, to a group of 11 to 13 year old Pacific Island students (n=l 7) with the intention of enabling students to comprehend text which contained these word parts. A control group continued with their usual literacy programme but took part in all testing episodes. Results showed that students who had received the intervention made significant gains in the ability to recognise target words and also previously untaught words that contained the taught affixes but did not demonstrate significant gains in overall reading comprehension. Possible reasons for the results obtained are discussed.
- Subjects
ISLANDS of the Pacific; TEACHING; VOCABULARY; ACADEMIC achievement; SUCCESS
- Publication
New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 2, p17
- ISSN
1173-5562
- Publication type
Article