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In the present study, intensive vocabulary training by computer was undertaken in a two‐year kindergarten programme in the Netherlands. In the intervention, 67 native and immigrant children in the first and second years of kindergarten played vocabulary games on the computer twice a week for a period of 15 minutes over 15 weeks. A control group of 97 kindergartners followed the regular curriculum. In a pre‐test‐training‐post‐test‐retention test design, positive effects of the computer training were found on a curriculum‐dependent vocabulary test. A trend was found towards positive effects of the computer training on a curriculum‐independent test for children in their second year of kindergarten. The results present an alternative and relatively teacher‐independent method to enlarge children's vocabularies.
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