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Direct linkBar-On, Amalia; Oron, Tal; Peleg, Orna – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Effects of semantic versus syntactic constraints on resolution of Hebrew heterophonic-homographic words were examined at three reading skill levels. Fourth-and sixth-grade students and a group of adults read aloud sentences containing two types of heterophonic-homographs: noun-noun (e.g., BYCH [Hebrew characters] is read as beitsa 'egg' and bitsa…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Semitic Languages, Nouns
Osipova, Anna V.; Ricci, Leila A.; Menzies, Holly – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2016
Learning a foreign language is a critical skill in the current context of globalization and multicultural communication. Present secondary and post-secondary foreign language classes admit increasing numbers of students with learning disabilities (LD). Given the particular challenges faced by these students in the area of language processing,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Student Characteristics, Teaching Methods
Chilton, Molly Welsh; Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
An experiment compared the impact of more and less semantically connected sentence contexts on vocabulary learning. Third graders (N = 40) were taught the definitions and meanings of six unfamiliar verbs: "anticipate," "attain," "devise," "restrain," "wield," and "persist." The verbs were…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Sentences, Semantics, Vignettes
Coll-Florit, Marta; Gennari, Silvia P. – Cognitive Psychology, 2011
This work investigates how we process and represent event duration in on-line language comprehension. Specifically, it examines how events of different duration are processed and what type of knowledge underlies their representations. Studies 1-4 examined verbs and phrases in different contexts. They showed that durative events took longer to…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cues, Semantics, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedCox, Jerry L. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
Proposes a method, based on dependency theory, for teaching reading in the foreign language classroom. Examples are provided for English, German, French, and Norwegian. (AM)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Dictionaries, English (Second Language), French
Peer reviewedKuhn-Osius, K. E. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1987
Attempts to establish a practical approach to teaching the various meanings of the German verb "handeln". Exercises that aid advanced students in understanding the verb's meaning include a complete list of all possible meanings of the verb, as well as sample sentences using the verb in a wide range of contexts. (LMO)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Deep Structure, German, Instructional Materials
Download full textCaouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997
English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics
