Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over the last two decades. Recognizing this, the U.S. Department of Education recently sponsored a Focus on Vocabulary conference that attracted the best-known and most active researchers in the vocabulary field. This book is the outgrowth of that conference. It presents scientific evidence from leading research programs that address persistent issues regarding the role of vocabulary in text comprehension.
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Psycholinguistics Psycholinguists have shown that the comprehension and production of even the simplest language is a highly complex, almost miraculous, process. This brief introduction shows how psycholinguistic research can act as a window to the workings of the human mind.
My First Book of Sign Учебник англ.языка для детей от 4 до 8 лет My First Book of Sign, a full-color alphabet book, gives the sign for 150 of the words most frequently used by young children. The vocabulary comes from recognized word list sources such as the Dale List of 769 Easy Words. The proportion of word category choices (nouns, modifiers, and verbs) is based on early language acquisition research. Readers do not have to know American Sign Language to enjoy My First Book of Sign; the book provides explanations of how to form each sign. This is a very special alphabet book appropriate for all children who are just beginning to read.
Writing In English - A Practical Handbook for Scientific and Technical Writers.
Ещё одна книга для тех, кто хочет получить модную нынче профессию "технического писателя" (technical writer).
Это пособие написано в рамках проекта WPE - Writing Professional English (http://www.kj.fme.vutbr.cz/leon2/index.html). Содержание:
Types of writing - scientific articles, research papers, proposals
Composition - titles, planning your writing, paragraph writing, introductions, writing the main body, conclusions, sections of a research paper, describing tables and graphs, referencing, plagiarism, abstracts, summary writing
My First Book of Sign
