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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Technical Vocabulary"”.
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Supporting Classroom Inclusion: An Oracy Approach to Catalyse Learning Scientific Vocabulary
Understanding technical vocabulary is crucial for learning secondary science. Whilst all students may encounter challenges whilst learning technical vocabulary, those who are learning English may encounter additional challenges due to the language barrier posed by English-as-a-medium-of-instruction …
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Dark Consciousness: Theory of Mind and Henry James’s The Golden Bowl
… and mislead the reader. Despite lacking a modern technical vocabulary, James remains acutely aware of how human cognitive structures both process a text and function within a social setting.
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Investigating the Language of Engineering Education
… is the ability to learn and understand technical vocabulary. Mastering such vocabulary is often a desired learning outcome of engineering education. In promoting this goal, this research investigates the development of a tool that creates wordlists of characteristic discipline-specific …
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Alexander the Great and the English novel
… by reception theory, which provides a useful technical vocabulary and outlook by which to approach the phenomena which affect the comprehension of, and subsequent re-appropriation, of cultural artifacts.
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Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Disease: A Semantic Approach
… the Old English language was adapted to the technical discipline of medicine, with an emphasis on semantic interference between Latin medical terminology and Old English medical terminology. The main purpose of the examination is to determine the extent to which scholarly ideas concerning the …
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New speaker language and identity: Practices and perceptions around Breton as a regional language of France
… specifically issues around newer and more technical vocabulary. Traditional speakers are said to use French borrowings in such cases, influenced by the dominance of French in the wider environment, while new speakers are portrayed as eschewing these in favour of a “purer” form of Breton, …
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Ten Centuries of Celsus’s De Medicina: Practical Histories of Medical Humanism
… which provided humanists a rich repository of technical vocabulary to produce new translations of ancient Greek texts. Studying manuscript and printed sources in English, French, Italian, and Latin, my dissertation uses the reception of De medicina to question the binomial pairs …
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An imperative of longing: apprehending God in the "Kephalaia gnōstika r" of Diadochos of Photike
… God without distraction. It is however a work of technical density and grammatical subtlety, and details of the precise theology of prayer which it contains have never been grasped with precision. What is clear is that it utilises, repeatedly and apparently with specific intent, terminology of the …
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Carbon Storage in Old-Growth Western Larch (Larix occidentalis) Forests of Western Montana
… plant identification by eliminating the use of technical vocabulary, focusing instead on visually recognizable plant characters and providing students with a more user-friendly means of identifying specimens and obtaining species-specific information.
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Carbon Storage in Old-Growth Western Larch (Larix occidentalis) Forests of Western Montana
… plant identification by eliminating the use of technical vocabulary, focusing instead on visually recognizable plant characters and providing students with a more user-friendly means of identifying specimens and obtaining species-specific information.
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A socio-cultural study exploring Greek and English 11-year-old children's responses to wordless picturebooks
… thesis encourages teachers to support students' technical vocabulary on images, and invites schools to integrate wordless picturebooks into their curriculum for older children.
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Improvising pianists : aspects of keyboard technique and musical structure in free jazz - 1955-1980
… style, concerned with finding its own voice and technical vocabulary, as any other period of jazz history. As an analytical and critical study of pianists and their use of the piano in free jazz and improvised music, this survey is designed to fill a gap in musicological research of this …