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Direct linkMcKnight, Heal – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Almost all of the author's community college students feel self-conscious about their vocabulary. She thinks that their resistance to expanding their vocabulary has many tangled roots: sometimes the students seem nervous about what they leave behind as they notch their vocabulary up to a more formal, college level. This article discusses how the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocabulary Development, College Students, Journal Writing
