06.26.13 ~ Silverman and Hines - Article
This article, like the previous one, also concerned a research study. This time the researchers wanted to compare teaching vocabulary to lower elementary school students through a traditional read aloud and through a read aloud that was supplemented with multimedia reinforcement of the vocabulary words (which all concerned animal habitats). Then they also compared teaching vocabulary in these ways to native English speakers versus ELL students. For this study, I was not surprised that the multimedia reinforcement helped the ELL students to learn the vocabulary. It was interesting though that watching videos with the vocabulary words in them didn't seem change the performance of the native English speakers one way or the other. I love using multimedia to reinforce vocabulary in the classroom, and I will definitely continue to do so now the I have the research to back up the usefulness!
This article, like the previous one, also concerned a research study. This time the researchers wanted to compare teaching vocabulary to lower elementary school students through a traditional read aloud and through a read aloud that was supplemented with multimedia reinforcement of the vocabulary words (which all concerned animal habitats). Then they also compared teaching vocabulary in these ways to native English speakers versus ELL students. For this study, I was not surprised that the multimedia reinforcement helped the ELL students to learn the vocabulary. It was interesting though that watching videos with the vocabulary words in them didn't seem change the performance of the native English speakers one way or the other. I love using multimedia to reinforce vocabulary in the classroom, and I will definitely continue to do so now the I have the research to back up the usefulness!
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