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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Word families"”.
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Vocabulary Through Affixes and Word Families - A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Program for Adult ELL Students
… with an emphasis on learning vocabulary through word families and increased morphological awareness. The main contribution is a computer-based program that guides users through a series of interactive reading and vocabulary practice exercises which allow them to explore and learn how certain …
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The Vocabulary Demands of Popular English Songs
… necessary to reach 95% and 98% coverage of the words in songs. The songs in the corpus were divided into two varieties of English—American and British, six decades—1950s to 2000s, and four genres—Urban Roots, Formative Rock, Progressive Rock, and Mainstream Listening. An analysis was first …
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Comparing the Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Intermediate-level Students of Different Native languages in an Intensive English Program
… In some instances, vocabulary size varied by 900 word families per student. First language influence was also investigated by comparing the largest two language groups in the sample, Arabic (N= 28) and Spanish (N=12). Spanish-speaking students significantly outperformed the Arabic speaking …
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New senses and formations in Old English glosses and translations, with particular reference to the psalter and the gospels
… between entire Old English and Latin word families, so that Old English formations with the same roots or bases tended to develop new senses relating to the same concepts. Some Old English loan formations seem to have been created to fill the gaps when Old English did not have …
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How Fluency is Impacted for Struggling Readers Through Decoding, Rereading, and Word Study
… readers when the decoding of new or unfamiliar words were taught during small group reading instruction. Three females and two male first and second grade students provided usable data for this study. Research was.collected over a three-month period and was taken during small reading groups. The …
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Learner Modelling for Individualised Reading in a Second Language
… components: (1) automatic glossing of difficult words in texts, (2) individualised search engine for locating interesting texts of appropriate difficulty, (3) supplementary exercises for introducing key vocabulary and reviewing difficult words and (4) reliably monitoring reading and reporting …
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Multimodal analysis of instructional materials and vocabulary learning in EFL and CLIL instruction
… in the identification of types, tokens, word families and presence of multimodality (visual and linguistic modes) in the instructional materials. In the second we made use of an adapted version of the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale test (VKS) (Wesche & Paribakht, 1996) to investigate aspects …