Vocabulary Teaching in Refugee Children within the Context of the Greek Formal Education

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Papadopoulou, Despina
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The aim of the present study is to investigate vocabulary teaching in children with refugee backgrounds. The effectiveness of three vocabulary interventions—flashcards, pantomime, and use of contextual cues—is examined within the context of formal primary education in Greece. The improvement of the children’s vocabulary is also assessed in association with factors related to the students’ background as well as factors related to the words taught. Thirty-three pupils from the second to the sixth primary school grade attended the teaching interventions. Their first languages are Arabic, Farsi, and Kurdish. According to the results, flashcards and pantomime significantly improve children’s second language vocabulary skills, while this finding does not apply to the intervention involving contextual cues. Age is found to play a role only in the latter intervention, while the effectiveness of no intervention was influenced by word category.
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refugees; primary school students; L2 vocabulary teaching; flashcards; pantomime; contextual cues
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ISO 690OLIOUMTSEVITS, Konstantina, Despina PAPADOPOULOU, Theodoros MARINIS, 2023. Vocabulary Teaching in Refugee Children within the Context of the Greek Formal Education. In: Languages. MDPI. 8(1), 7. eISSN 2226-471X. Available under: doi: 10.3390/languages8010007
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  title={Vocabulary Teaching in Refugee Children within the Context of the Greek Formal Education},
  number={1},
  volume={8},
  journal={Languages},
  author={Olioumtsevits, Konstantina and Papadopoulou, Despina and Marinis, Theodoros},
  note={Article Number: 7}
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