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Newton, Joanna A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Academic vocabulary knowledge is central to reading achievement, particularly for students who have limited experiences with academic discourse outside of school. Yet many teachers devote little time to focused instruction in this area, because they may lack critical meta-linguistic and pedagogical knowledge. The purpose of this longitudinal…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Academic Discourse
Ladewig, Stratton L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Deponency has been treated with inconsistency in studies of Greek grammar with adverse implications to exegesis of the NT. In recent years, some grammarians have denied that deponency is a valid expression of voice. This work serves to contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon in the Koine period so that the NT can be interpreted…
Descriptors: Verbs, Greek, Diachronic Linguistics, Latin
Schwartz, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that promote transformative learning experiences of college-level adult learners of foreign languages. This study was conducted to analyze how college-level adult learners of foreign languages experience transformative learning through educational and non-educational experiences. Mezirow's…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, College Students, Adult Students
Ryan, Kevin Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Research on syllable weight in generative phonology has focused almost exclusively on systems in which weight is treated as an ordinal hierarchy of clearly delineated categories (e.g. light and heavy). As I discuss, canonical weight-sensitive phenomena in phonology, including quantitative meter and quantity-sensitive stress, can also treat weight…
Descriptors: Syllables, Computational Linguistics, Greek, Dravidian Languages
Yearta, Lindsay Sheronick – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Vocabulary and comprehension are so inextricably linked that it ensures the necessity of researchers and teachers to determine the most effective method of vocabulary instruction. Our nation's children are still victims of what has been termed the vocabulary gap (Biemiller & Boote, 2006). This "vocabulary gap," according to a large…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Vocabulary Development, Internet, Teaching Methods