Lexical semantic richness : effect on reading comprehension and on readers' hypotheses about the meanings of novel words.
Les auteurs ont examine les facteurs de contexte et de definitions qui determinent si les etudiants de premier cycle apprennent des mots inconnus sans enseignement prealable, et dans quelle mesure. De...
Les AA. etudient l'apprentissage naturel du sens des mots pendant la lecture chez 447 enfants americains et chinois. A partir de deux textes (l'un lu, l'autre pas), les enfants ont du repondre a un en...
KNEILE, LYNN A., Ph.D., May 2014, Speech-Language Science The Effect of Morphological and Syntactic Knowledge on Incidental Derived Word Learning Director of Dissertation: Sally A. Marinellie Vocabula...
In this paper, we introduce a WordNetbased measure of semantic relatedness by combining the structure and content of WordNet with co–occurrence information derived from raw text. We use the co–occurre...
Folksonomy and tagging systems, which allow users to interactively annotate a pool of shared resources using descriptive tags, have enjoyed phenomenal success in recent years. The concepts are organiz...
Encouraging users to create stronger passwords has always been one of the key issues in password-based authentication. It is particularly important as passwords are still the most common user authenti...
Encouraging users to create stronger passwords has always been one of the key issues in password-based authentication. It is particularly important as passwords are still the most common user authenti...
Encouraging users to create stronger passwords has always been one of the key issues in password-based authentication. It is particularly important as passwords are still the most common user authenti...
Effective second language vocabulary acquisition is particularly important for English as a foreign language (EFL) learners who frequently acquire impoverished lexicons despite years of formal study. ...
EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT TEACHING OF CONTEXT CLUES IN CONTENT AREA TEXTS Jessie Ruth Jensen Department of Teacher Education Master of Education The purpose of this study was to examine the ef...
Dutch advanced students of French read a French short story in one of three text reading conditions: Marginal Glosses (provision of L1 translations of unknown words), Dictionary (opportunity to use a ...
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Despite the long history of the use of dissection in biology coursework, it has and continues to be, very controversial (Hart et al, 2008; Kinzie et al, 1993; Langley, 1991; Orlans, 1988; Nobis, 2002;...
Because most word meanings are learned from, exposure in context, and because poor readers read less and less challenging materials than do better readers, there is a gap between the word meaning know...
BACKGROUND Children who have poor vocabulary knowledge are at risk of wider language weaknesses and reading comprehension difficulties, which will impact upon their educational achievement. The centra...
AbstractHypertext and its extension, hypermedia, are being used to create new forms of educational software: hypermedia assisted instruction (HAI). In order to create classroom material that is both i...
Abstract Normally hearing students acquire most of their reading vocabulary from printed context, but little is known about this process in hearing-impaired students. Two studies, therefore, investiga...
Abstract Ability to infer the meaning of unknown words encountered while reading plays an important role in learners’ L2 word-knowledge development. Despite numerous findings reported on word-meaning ...
ABSTRACT This research investigates the independent and interactive effects of contextual and definitional information on vocabulary learning. German students of English received either a text with un...