Effects of a read aloud intervention on first grade student vocabulary, listening comprehension, and language proficiency

Communicative-functional components of discourse

“…The communicative aspect of discourse is seen as a category of language materialized in the form of oral or written linguistic work, relatively complete in semantic and structural sense, the length of which is potentially variable: from the chain most separated from language to mass significant work (story, conversation, description, instructions, lectures, etc.) (Baker et al, 2020). The concept of discourse is characterized by the parameters of completeness, integrity, coherence, and others.…”

“…There is verbalization and objectification on a particular issue, present in the act of speech, the signs of working with information, the cognitive process that leads to the processes of cognition and perception of the world. All units of language serve either to express information or to disseminate or, finally, to extend the flow of information and thus serve as an idea in human consciousness and help to take into account the experience of mankind as a whole, determine the results of interconnection and cognition of reality (Baker et al, 2020). It is best to use the term concept for the interpretation of certain elements of the situation.…”

“…As for the language model, the aspects of the language sign can be considered both in the communicative and in the functional plan as coordinates of production (communicative development) of language. Sigma is the coordinate of the communicative development of the personal meaning of the recipient, taking into account its correlation with the surrounding reality, based on his own experience of cognitive activity (Baker et al, 2020).…”

“…Analysis of the topic "Semantic-sigmatic and communicative-functional components of discourse" showed that, in modern scientific works, there is an interest in the study of issues of discourse and all its components. The work of many modern linguists are devoted to the study of the components of modern discourse -these are works of the scientists such as Abramova & Sherekhova (2020); Atabekova (2020); Baker et al (2020); Bergenholtz (2016); Etxebarria et al (2016), and many others. The study of semantic and communicative-functional components of discourse was conducted in several stages.…”

A Storytelling Approach on Vocabulary, Reading, and Letter Sound Fluency of Struggling First Graders With German as Second Language With and Without Behavioral Problems

“…Read aloud has been shown to be effective for vocabulary, comprehension, and narrative language in first graders (Baker et al, 2020) and for phonological awareness (Swanson et al, 2011). Since storytelling belongs rather to the implicit method, adding flashcards to storytelling in order to teach components explicitly would be, according to Marulis and Neuman (2010), a further boost in effectiveness.…”