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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Teaching and learning of technical terms constitute a major problem for ESP instructors and students. To help the students learn, retain, apply and relate technical terms, a multiple-associations instructional approach that focuses on connecting the printed form of the technical term with its pronunciation (the hidden sounds, double and silent…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; Kita, Sotaro – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
This paper presents a discussion of the constraints imposed on lexicalisation during production by language-specific patterns, such as whether words exist in a language to describe a given event and whether language-specific syntactic and phonological information correlates with semantic properties. First, we introduce in broad strokes relevant…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Vocabulary Development, Language Patterns, Semantics
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Downing, John; Morris, Bert – Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes a model for reading--ERICA (Effective Reading in Content Areas)--that consists of four stages: preparing, thinking through, extracting and organizing, and translating. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping, Content Area Reading, Context Clues