In the experiment reported in chapter 6, sensitive testing revealed a considerable increase in E's vocabulary knowledge after she encountered target words that occurred two, three or four times in a German novella. ... However, direct vocabulary instruction does have an important role to play in making L2 reading more efficient for beginning learners. ... Simplified readers may also be a useful resource for learners who need to acquire high frequency vocabulary. ... Results on a variety of measures including vocabulary tests clearly favored the reading condition. 2.3 The War on Poverty ...

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Further, he demonstrated that 60 per cent of the pupils he studies had insufficient reading ability to deal with the large beginning vocabulary loads of bookkeeping textbooks; he suggested that there was need for better texts, more emphasis upon discussion, and slower teacher presentation. ...

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Black and White Test Score Comparison African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics test, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. ... If black and white children spoke relatively different languages, as some aspects on English claim, on might expect black and white children with vocabularies of equal size to know somewhat different words. In that case of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test show much larger black white gaps than others. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R) was ...

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The researchers also found out that there is a strong correlation between reading and vocabulary cognition. It can be observed that most students who have a large vocabulary are commonly good readers, this isn't surprising since the most effective way to acquire large vocabulary is to read extensively. ...

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Gone are the days when a presidential speech oozed sophistication because of the authors usage of lofty sentences, adorned with array of intellectual vocabulary. ... There are certain vocabulary words specific to a eulogy. ...

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Introduction In the period of documenting Christian scriptures and teachings, Tertullian works and theologies have a visible impact. He entered into Christianity before 197 and rendered his services for illustrating and defending the orthodox principles of the Christian faith. His works can be clas...

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Suppose you are compiling a battery of psychological assessment measures for selection of students at a South African tertiary institution. You decide to include a group test of intelligence (based on the psychometric approach) but given the multicultural context in which you are working, you also a...

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(Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long before this, Hemingway's limited vocabulary, few adjectives, and concrete descriptions of specific objects all countered with minimalism the problem of "used up words." ... A word often used to describe aspects of Hemingway's prose or the central element of his style as a whole is 'simple', but this should not be taken as a criticism or a an indication of a limited vocabulary or lack of intelligence on Hemingway's part. ... (Hemingway, Short 192) Kathleen Morgan tells it plainly: "Hemingway ruthlessly pares unnecessary words ...

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Students are measured by letter identification, word test, concepts of print, writing vocabulary, hearing sounds in words and text reading level. ... These books provide natural language rather than a controlled vocabulary. ...

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It is important for teachers to understand that students who are hard of hearing find it more difficult than their classmates without disabilities to learn vocabulary, grammar, work order and language (Smith, 2007). ...

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A time when a child's imagination soars; curious to understand the world around him and has a vocabulary of 2,600 words - understanding of at least 20,000. ... An example of this is how a child's answers to a simple question may be very simple and an adult's answers are more complex, and use stronger vocabulary. ...

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Language Usage It was postulated that the problem of Filipino vis -vis English language usage is not our fascination for the latter but our derision for the former. Of course, there are exceptions to this instance. However, generally we Filipinos do view English as more superior language than o...

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The major advantage of the focus group over questionnaires and structured interviews is that it reveals what is on the respondents mind and not the researchers (Bryman, 1988). The respondents are able to talk in their own terms about issues that are of central significance to them rather than respon...

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Preoccupation with food may appear as helpless dependent clinging to parents, or as a hostile rejection of them. 1, 4 Hamburger, on the basis of psychoanalytic investigation of obese patients, reported also that symbolically food may carry an enormous variety of different, often contradictory, connotations. 16, 17 These often very gifted young people grasped psycho-dynamic relationships with amazing ease, and they would acquire an extensive psychoanalytic vocabulary. ...

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Abstract Reading Comprehension research has a long and rich history, when examining the process of reading comprehension and the effective instruction of it. What comprehension is, how comprehension occurs and how to teach comprehension have driven hundreds of research studies in the last 30 yea...

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Research and Critical Reflection In 2010, OFSTED produced a report about creative approaches to teaching and learning with a focus on raising standards. They visited 44 schools, 19 of which were secondary schools that had received good or outstanding from their most recent inspection. Where creative approaches to teaching and learning had the biggest impact and the greatest improvements shown was in schools that were considered to be in challenging circumstances: "(schools) with a higher than average proportion of pupils eligible for free schools meals, low attainment on entry and high ra...

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Children can be expected to go through some periods of mixing the two languages and borrowing vocabulary to express ideas, sometimes within the same sentence. This occurs because vocabulary may exist in one language but not in the other. ...

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"The buildings of Borromini, who came from northern Italy, are characterized by their inventive transformations of the established vocabulary of space, light, and architectural elements in order to increase the content of their work. ...

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I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. All lies and jest. Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest. - Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer, 1970 Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Extraordinary Sins Interpreting Mark Twain's work within our distinctly American cultural heritage has absorbed the careers of countless literary scholars. ...

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The English Legal System is the system of law which uses the common law system that has developed in England from approximately 1066 to the present. It has been a long history since the establishment of the system until today. Legal history seems to be less important in modern days and less relevant...

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Bilingual Education is defined as any school program that uses two languages. In a more theoretical sense it is any educational program whose ultimate goal is for the participants to be fully versed in all facets of both languages, able to listen, speak , read, and write in both languages. The defin...

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Pablo PicassoI have researched into Pablo Picasso, and have found one of his linoleum cuts. The linoleum cut is called 'Still Life under a Lamp' (1962) it is the most brilliant example of Picasso's one-block linoleum cuts. It represents well, too, highly decorative turn his vision took in his last decade. This print, created when he was eighty years old, combines a youthful energetic sweep of line and colour with an older nostalgia for quaint patterns. It is, altogether, a satisfying blend. ...

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Introduction When going throughout school, it is very hard for a teacher with a class of 15 students to give each student individualized time to work on their specific needs. A problem that younger students suffer from is their ability to read and the difficulties that come with it (Lyon, 2003). For many students if their reading abilities are not corrected at early stages, they are subjected to being held back in school, need additional help during class; taking them away from normal instruction, which creates greater hardships during schooling. In order to help correct this, scientists have ...

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Phonics and Whole Language Instruction Abstract Two primary styles of elementary school reading programs, Phonics and Whole Language, are examined. A discussion of the origins of each method provides insight into the ongoing battle being fought within the educational community concerning the most effective reading program of the two. A description of the programs and review of the problems and attributes associated with each follow. An evaluation of data, found within numerous articles and two books concentrating on the issue of phonics versus whole language instruction, indicates th...

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Quality is perhaps the most hackneyed word in the English language. It has come to describe everything from BMW automobiles to Mirando Classic #2 pencils. A quality computer, to some people, may mean one that can perform 117 tasks while simultaneously giving an expert foot massage. To others, a quality computer is one that will not freeze every time they perform an important task. In truth, the word quality has become so trite that many times the word has adapted negative connotations. ...

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