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Peer reviewedYager, Robert E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1983
Initial textbook investigations indicate that more new words/phrases are introduced than in a similar time frame in which foreign languages are studied. Reviews these initial studies, studies of vocabulary mastery in foreign languages, and general research concerning vocabulary development. Reports on occurrence of technical/special words in 25…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning
Peer reviewedHyland, Ken – English for Specific Purposes, 1999
Explores role of college textbooks in students' acquisition of special disciplinary literacy, focusing on use of metadiscourse as manifestation of writer's linguistic and rhetorical presence in a text. Features are compared from 21 textbook extracts in microbiology, marketing, and applied linguistics with similar corpus of research articles,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
