The relation between exposure to sophisticated and complex language and early-adolescent English-only and language minority learners' vocabulary.

TY - JOUR

T1 - The relation between exposure to sophisticated and complex language and early-adolescent English-only and language minority learners' vocabulary.

AU - Gámez, Perla B.

AU - Lesaux, Nonie K.

N1 - This study investigated the relation between teachers' (N = 22) use of sophisticated and complex language in urban middle-school classrooms and their students' (mean age at pretest = 11.51 years; N = 782; 568 language minority and 247 English only) vocabulary knowledge.

PY - 2012/7/1

Y1 - 2012/7/1

UR - https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ991724

U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01776.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01776.x

M3 - Article

SN - 1467-8624

VL - 83

JO - Child Development

JF - Child Development

IS - 4

ER -