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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"text type"”.
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The Pluriformity of the Alexandrian Text-Type in the Catholic Epistles
<p>The Alexandrian text-type is traditionally known by textual critics to exist in two groups. In the mid-1970s, W. Larry Richards discovered a third Alexandrian group in his study of the Johannine Epistles. Kenneth Keumsang Yoo’s study of 1 Peter in 2001 confirmed the existence of the third group. …
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Understanding strategy utilization during reading comprehension : relations between text type and reading levels using verbal protocols
… while reading nonfiction, fiction, and poetry texts. This naturalistic diagnostic study uses a think-aloud methodology. The study examines verbal, retrospective, and recall reports from fifteen seventh-graders of varying reading abilities; good, average, and weaker from one private school in …
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ELL vocabulary acquisition: How improvement measurements are affected by text type, English reading ability, and assessment methods
… learning. This study seeks to determine what textual and student factors affect vocabulary acquisition rates from reading English texts for high school students for whom English is a second language, as well as how assessment factors affect the measurement of vocabulary acquisition. In this …
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The So-Called Mixed Text: an Examination of the Non-Alexandrian and Non-Byzantine Text-Type in the Catholic Epistles
… Since the eighteenth century, textual scholars have been grouping New Testament Greek manuscripts into groups called text-types in order to evaluate the thousands of variant readings found in these manuscripts. These text-types form the basis for determining the earliest form of …
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Picturebooks as Visual Literacy: The Influence of Illustrations on Second-Graders' Comprehension of Narrative Text
… following research question: "How does change in text type as text contains more illustrations and fewer words influence second-graders' comprehension of narrative text?" Eleven second-graders read three texts each and completed a series of oral reading comprehension tasks. The three text types …
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Cohesion in text differentiation : a study of English and Arabic
… in the organisation and processing of three text types in English and Arabic. In other words, it attempts to shed some light on the descriptive and explanatory power of cohesion in different text typologies. To this effect, three text types, namely, literary fictional narrative, newspaper …
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The Classification of the Greek Manuscripts of the Epistle of James
… and only secondarily according to their text-types.</p> <p>In order to accomplish this, we have made use of new computer methods.</p> <p>In a recent dissertation on the classification of 81 Greek manuscripts of the Johannine epistles, W.L. Richards employed a computer to form “tentative …
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Diachronic word-formation: a corpus-based study of derived nominalizations in the history of English.
… are drawn from two historical corpora of English texts: The Early Modern section of HCET (Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, 1500-1700), and ARCHER (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers, 1650-1990). The case studies are situated within an integrated theoretical framework of …
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The Effects of Oral Repeated Reading With and Without Corrective Feedback on the Fluency and Comprehension of Narrative and Expository Text for Struggling Readers
… by group on readings of narrative and expository texts and by type of comprehension questions. Students were randomly assigned to one of two reading groups (oral repeated reading with corrective feedback and oral repeated reading without corrective feedback). Participants in each group were …
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Structure and access : the role of structural factors in text comprehension and information
… the access, comprehension, and recall of textual information, especially when the content of the material is unfamiliar to the reader. A study was made of the effects of manipulating text structure, familiarity of subjects with the text type, familiarity with the content, and instructions …
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The expression of rights and obligations in German contracts
… a study of modality within the specific legal context of contract. The purpose of the investigation is to uncover the actual realisation pattern of the modalities involved in creating contractual rights and obligations and to see how this differs from the realisation pattern generally associated …
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Cultural translation from Chinese to English: a case study of the problems in the translation and interpretation of selected contemporary texts
… socio-cultural elements pertaining to a literary text extend beyond the commonly understood scope and depth of literary translation into the macro-contextual sphere, as they arise before and after, as well as during, the actual translating process. These elements include those in the forms of …
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Translation of a book of evidence and its impact on a criminal trial - A case study
… translation may be more appropriate for this text type. The investigation highlights the dangers related to commissioning unqualified interpreters and translators in a legal setting and confirms an urgent need to regulate this field in Ireland. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that Juliane …
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The Role of Grammatical Word Class in Second Language Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Reading
… interaction occurred between the variables of text type and the target words' grammatical class. Learners acquired grammatical class for significantly more nouns in one text, and for significantly more verbs in the other text. The interface between text and grammatical class may have positively …
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A genre analysis of the processes of professional document design
… thesis uses discourse analysis linked with topic type analysis, and Part Two uses Rhetorical Structure Theory linked with topic type analysis. Chapters One to Four orient the thesis. Chapter Five deals with presentations. The three different presentation meetings are each shown to consist of the …
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Toward a genre writing curriculum: Schooling genres in the Common Core State Standards
… these expectations, the CCSS used three general “text type” classifications: Narrative, Informative/Explanatory, and Argumentative. While the CCSS outlines the general expectations for students writing in these text types, the linguistic and genre expectations were not fully expressed. This study …
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Henneberger Urbare
… Staatsarchiv Meiningen und der Beschreibung des Textsorte "Urbar" am Beispiel der in den Akten enthaltenen Urbare. Beiden Teilen geht ein Abschnitt voraus, in dem die Editionsprinzipien und der textlinguistische Forschungsansatz diskutiert und begründet werden. In der Textsortenbeschreibung …
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A call to covenant love: Text grammar and literary structure in Deuteronomy 5-11
… to Deuteronomy 5-11, this study applies a textlinguistic approach to discern literary structure and agenda. Chapter 1 summarizes a number of contemporary literary studies devoted to Deuteronomy 5-11, noting the tendency toward stylistic analysis that gives little thought to the formal, …
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A MULTIDIMENSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF DEEP AND SURFACE PROCESSING
… effects of a situational factor (i.e., text type) and an individual factor (i.e., subject-matter knowledge) on the relation between depth of processing and performance were investigated. Support for these individual and situational factors were derived from a systematic review of the …
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The Classification of the Greek Manuscripts of 1 Peter with Special Emphasis on Methodology
… This study is an attempt to establish a better textual critical method and to apply it to a larger database. The method identifies new statistical techniques that facilitate quantitative analysis, necessary to establish the tentative groups that are used for the profiling of manuscripts.</p> …
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