Summer Reading: Predicting Adolescent Word Learning from Aptitude, Time Spent Reading, and Text Type

Lawrence, J. F. (2009). Summer reading: Predicting adolescent word learning from aptitude, time spent reading, and text type. Reading Psychology, 30(5), 445–465. http://doi.org/10.1080/02702710802412008

http://doi.org/10.1080/02702710802412008

Abstract: Mostly low-income African American and Hispanic teens (N = 192) were tested in (a) passage comprehension, (b) vocabulary ability, (c) cloze task performance, and (d) listening comprehension in the spring and vocabulary in the fall. Students were surveyed about reading (a) narrative, (b) expository, (c) teen culture, and (d) online texts. Interaction terms created by the product of cloze task scores with the time and frequency of student narrative and expository reading were both significant predictors of fall vocabulary. Online reading was popular but did not predict vocabulary gains. Teen culture reading predicted vocabulary loss. Text type and student profiles both play a role in predicting fall vocabulary scores from summer reading.

Related Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/ijree.v3i1.19582

Related Paper(s): Lawrence, J. F., Hinga, B., Mahoney, J. L., & Vandell, D. L. (2015). Summer activities and vocabulary development: Relationships across middle childhood and adolescence. International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 3(1), 71-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/ijree.v3i1.19582

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Lawrence, J.F. (2015, September). Technology in English. U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The White House, Washington D.C.

Warschauer, M., & Lawrence, J. F. (2014, April). The Learning Analytics of Cloud Based Writing. Google Campus, New York, New York

Lawrence, J.F. (2012, September). Does talk exposure in preschool predict second-language vocabulary at age 10? A longitudinal study of Turkish immigrant children growing up in Norway. 学前教育中的语言接触是否会预测儿童10岁时的第二语言词汇？(Presented in Mandarin). East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Software Development

Lawrence, J., & Krueger, N. (2016). Bifrost: Bridging linguistic, cognitive and computer science resources (Version Reduced: Polysemy and Depth only). Retrieved from https://github.com/Malthanatos/Bifrost/tree/Reduced--Polysemy-and-Depth-only

EDITED VOLUME

Ippolito, J., Lawrence, J. F., & Zaller, C. (2013). Adolescent Literacy in the Era of the Common Core. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Other publications

Ippolito, J., Dobbs, C., Charner-Laird, M., & Lawrence, J. F. (2016). Delicate layers of learning: Achieving disciplinary literacy requires continuous, collaborative adjustments. Learning Forward.

Lawrence, J. F., White, C., & Snow, C. E. (2010). The words students need. Educational Leadership, 68(2), 23–26.

Lawrence, J. F. (2005). Perennial Themes in Education. Journal of Education, 186(1), 87–95.