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Hsu, Chihcheng; Ou Yang, Fang-Chuan – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
Students of English as a second language who major in science and technology use English-language textbooks to ensure that they can read English materials upon graduation. Research indicates that teachers spend little time helping these students on the linguistic complexity of such textbooks. Vocabulary, grammar, and article structure are elements…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Textbooks, Reading Skills
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Tseng, Yuen-Hsien; Chang, Chun-Yen; Rundgren, Shu-Nu Chang; Rundgren, Carl-Johan – Computers & Education, 2010
Motivated by a long-term goal in education for measuring Taiwanese civic scientific literacy in media (SLiM), this work reports the detailed techniques to efficiently mine a concept map from 2 years of Chinese news articles (901,446 in total) for SLiM instrument development. From the Chinese news stories, key terms (important words or phrases),…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Scientific Literacy, Test Construction, Measurement