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Lancaster, F. W. – 1985
Prepared as a guide for the use of an instructor, this document contains two principal components: 84 "exhibits," which could be converted into slides or transparencies, and text, which explains and amplifies the exhibits. The text discusses 14 subject areas: (1) Purpose of Vocabulary Control; (2) Major Components of a Controlled…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Lexicography
Peer reviewedRaben, Joseph – Computers and the Humanities, 1991
Provides an overview of the development of humanities computing during the past 25 years. Mentions the major applications of the computer to humanities disciplines including the generation of concordances, attempts at dating works of major authors, proving authorship, defining style, and compiling indexes. Discusses lexicographical uses and…
Descriptors: Art History, Computational Linguistics, Computer Uses in Education, Databases
Download full textStockdale, Joseph Gagen, III – 2000
This dictionary of collocations was compiled by an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teacher in Saudi Arabia who teaches adult, native speakers of Arabic. The dictionary is practical in teaching English because it helps to focus on everyday events and situations. The dictionary works as follows: the teacher looks up a word, such as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Dictionaries, Elementary Secondary Education
Small, Robert C. – 1983
Despite claims to the contrary, the English language program has improved dramatically over the past 20 years. The traditional program's drill/memorization approach was ineffectual, incomplete, shallow, and uninteresting. Today, however, the study of language involves looking at all of its aspects, sounds, words, and symbols. Instead of throwing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dictionaries, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Carroll, David; Kowitz, Johanna – 1989
A text concordancer is a computer program that operates on a body of text to locate and sort all occurrences of a target morpheme, word, or pattern. Developments in word processing and hard disks in small computers have made new applications of the technique possible with direct relevance to the classroom. A discussion of the technique looks at…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Discourse Analysis
Small, Robert C., Jr. – 1987
Designed for secondary school English teachers who want to help their students develop enthusiasm for words, their histories, and the way language structures words to produce meaning, this paper offers suggestions for a program of study employing dictionary projects and personal experience. The paper describes making a class dictionary of teen…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Class Activities, Definitions, Dictionaries
