Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder During Book Reading

"Each child will learn 8 novel nouns referring to unfamiliar plants and animals (nepp) and a related meaning (a nepp likes rain) in the context of a story book. Four of the nouns will be will be learned using repeated spaced retrieval. In this condition, they will initially hear the information and be asked to retrieve it. Thereafter, they will be asked to retrieve it after hearing 3 intervening words. After each retrieval attempt, they will hear the target information again. This procedure will occur on two consecutive days."

"Each child will learn 8 novel nouns referring to unfamiliar plants and animals (nepp) and a related meaning (a nepp likes rain) in the context of a story book. Four of the nouns will be will be learned using repeated study trials only (with no retrieval practice). In this condition, they will simply hear the information (word \& meaning) as part of the story. This procedure will occur on two consecutive days."