Where Do We Get Our Academic Vocabulary? Comparing the Efficiency of Direct Instruction and Free Voluntary Reading

Autor/in	McQuillan, Jeff
Titel	Where Do We Get Our Academic Vocabulary? Comparing the Efficiency of Direct Instruction and Free Voluntary Reading
Quelle	In: Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 19 (2019) 1, S.129-138 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1533-242X
Schlagwörter	Academic Language; Vocabulary Development; Computational Linguistics; Adolescent Literature; Fiction; Reading Processes; Teaching Methods; Comparative Analysis; Direct Instruction; Recreational Reading; Efficiency + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Wortschatzarbeit; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Fiktion; Leseprozess; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Direct instructional procedues; Direct instructional approach; Unterrichtsverfahren; Häusliche Lektüre; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad
Abstract	Some researchers have argued that low-achieving students may never acquire sufficient levels of academic vocabulary to be successful in school without some form of explicit vocabulary instruction (e.g. Snow, Lawrence, & White, 2009). In this paper, I summarize the available data on the efficiency, in words learned per minute of instruction, of explicitly teaching academic vocabulary. I also examine another possible source for academic vocabulary knowledge: pleasure reading, or what Krashen (2004) refers to as "free voluntary reading." A large corpus of popular, young adult fiction is analyzed to assess the likelihood that academic words can be acquired at least in part through reading. Comparing the relative efficiency of direct instruction and free reading, I found that reading is between two and six times more efficient than explicit teaching of academic vocabulary. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01