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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"English Stories"”.
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Second language vocabulary acquisition through storybook reading for Chinese children
… study compared the effectiveness of two English storybook reading styles (preview-review reading versus concurrent translation) on the vocabulary development of kindergarteners ( n =50) in China, whose primary language is Chinese, who learn English as a second language. The children (aged …
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Contes anglais et autres de Jacques Ferron : introduction critique et traduction en anglais
… writings are of special interest to those English Canadians who often seem baffled by their increasingly restless compatriots. The English Stories and Other Tales translated here are probably among Ferron's most accessible writings for English-speaking Canadians; as such, however, they are …
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A shallow processing approach to anaphor resolution
… and other linguistic ambiguities in simple English stories and generates sentence-by-sentence paraphrases that show what interpretations have been selected. Input to SPAR takes the form of semantic structures for single sentences constructed by Boguraev's English analyser. These structures …
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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
<p>This thesis seeks to identify patterns of villainy in late nineteenth-century detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this …