Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ518131
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Enhancing Vocabulary Acquisition Through Reading: A Hierarchy of Text-Related Exercise Types.
Paribakht, T. Sima; Wesche, Marjorie
Canadian Modern Language Review, v52 n2 p155-78 Jan 1996
Presents a classification scheme for reading-related exercises advocated in English-as-a-Foreign-Language textbooks. The scheme proposes a hierarchy of the degree and type of mental processing required by various vocabulary exercises. The categories of classification are selective attention, recognition, manipulation, interpretation and production. (35 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, English (Second Language), Pilot Projects, Reading Assignments, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Second Language Instruction, Semantics, Textbook Content, Vertical Organization, Vocabulary Development, Word Lists, Word Recognition
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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