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Ho, Yann-Ru – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Objective: Taiwan recently published new language education policy documents and Indigenous language textbooks to support the emerging Indigenous language revitalization initiative. Thus, this study investigates how these current Indigenous policy documents and textbooks portray Indigenous agency and also examine how their contents construct…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Educational Theories, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance
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Sun, Yu-Chih – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
Extensive reading for second language learners have been widely documented over the past few decades. However, few studies, if any, have used a corpus analysis approach to analyze the vocabulary coverage within a single-author story series, its repetition of vocabulary, and the incidental and intentional vocabulary learning opportunities therein.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Word Lists, Secondary School Curriculum, Textbook Content
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Hsu, Wenhua – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This study created a medical word list (MWL) to bridge the gap between non-technical and technical vocabulary. The researcher compiled a corpus containing 155 textbooks across 31 medical subject areas from e-book databases (totaling 15 million running words) and examined the range and frequency of words outside the most frequent 3,000-word…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Medical Education