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Mahmoudi, Yazdan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The present paper is supposed to compare and contrast three of these masterpieces written the Renaissance period. The epyllions under study are Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander," Thomas Lodge's "Scylla's Metamorphosis" and Francis Beaumont's "Salmacis and Hermaphroditus." Bush believes that "the influence…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Classics (Literature), English Literature, Poetry
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Shokouhi, Hossein; Maniati, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2009
This study was intended to determine whether or not the genre of a reading text affects the incidental vocabulary acquisition of L2 learners while reading. To this aim, 40 Iranian EFL students whose vocabulary knowledge was within a limited range (already determined by Nation's Vocabulary Levels Test) were divided into two groups of 20 each for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development
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Golden, Joanne M. – Linguistics and Education, 1988
Presents the theoretical framework for examining texts in educational contexts. An actual reading lesson is analyzed in terms of the text structure and content, the nature of student-teacher interaction with the text, and post-reading discussion of the text. Tables outline the text structure and contrast teacher manual recommendations to actual…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades