Get the story straight: contextual repetition promotes word learning from storybooks

Although reading storybooks to preschool children is a common activity believed to improve language skills, how children learn new vocabulary from being to has been largely neglected in the shared storybook reading literature. The current study systematically explores the effects of repeatedly readi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jessica S Horst, Kelly L Parsons, Natasha M Bryan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00017/full