And for added fun, Captain Carmel asks you to man the tiller or trim the sheets or do other things involving vocabulary you won't immediately understand.
Over time, he said, the best-preserved abilities seem to involve vocabulary and knowledge about the world, what researchers call "crystallized intelligence".
Third, the reading passages differed in certain aspects involving vocabulary.
In addition, the reference lists of some existing publications, particularly recent reviews that involved vocabulary depth, such as Read (2014) and Schmitt (2014), were also consulted.
The plan was to spare the class time used for low-order learning involving vocabulary study and text reading activity by giving students a microlecture on vocabulary, a text record, word files of general reading comprehension questions as well as corresponding answers for students to study and check before class.
In a pair of studies, high-functioning children with autism aged 8 15 performed equally well as, and adults better than, individually matched controls at basic language tasks involving vocabulary and spelling.
Beukelman and Mirenda emphasize that vocabulary selection also involves ongoing vocabulary maintenance; however, a difficulty in AAC is that users or their carers must program in any new utterances manually (e.g. names of new friends or personal stories) and there are no existing commercial solutions for automatically adding content.
Today, the company is expanding its reach by launching Tinycards for iOS, its first app that can be used for learning virtually anything that involves memorization: vocabulary, equations, history facts and every Pokémon's name and stats (I'm not kidding; that is indeed a set of cards already available in Tinycards).
Such practice needs to be questioned and alternative methods that involve presenting vocabulary in unrelated sets need to be developed to facilitate vocabulary teaching and learning.
"The case does involve some vocabulary you may not be familiar with," Mr. Callagy said.
