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"VOCABULARY SIZE, TEXT COVERAGE AND WORD LISTS" is an online article written by Paul Nation and Robert Waring. This article answers the following FAQs by the most authoratative experts on vocabulary.
How much vocabulary does a second language learner need? How many words are there in English? How many words do native speakers know? How many words are needed to do the things a language user needs to do? How much vocabulary and how should it be learned? What vocabulary does a language learner need?
This PhD by project was partially funded by a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service and a grant from the Telematics Course Development Fund Trust.
This study attempted to combine the benefits of multimedia learning, adaptive interfaces, and learning style theory by constructing a novel e-learning environment. The environment was designed to accommodate individual learning styles while students progressed through an introductory course on computer programming.
The accommodation of learning styles with different forms of instruction has been shown to improve learning gain and learner attitudes in several classroom-based studies. In a classroom environment, one instructor usually teaches many learners simultaneously and as such, individualised instruction can be tedious and time-consuming. In comparison, an e-learning environment can respond to every learner and his or her needs individually with a timely and precise adaptation of learning materials.
Further and Higher Education in the UK has expanded greatly in recent years, bringing into education large numbers of young people who present teachers with new challenges. At the same time, there is an immense pressure to improve the quality of learning and teaching and to encourage students to be active participants in the process. This book is aimed at teachers, aspiring teachers and other professionals in upper secondary schools, further education colleges and universities who wish to increase learner motivation and to create opportunities for greater learner autonomy.
The Psychology of the Language Learner :Individual Differeces in Second Language Acquisition (Second Language Acquisition Research)This book follows the structure of the seminal book by Peter Skehan (1989), Individual Differences in Second Language Learning. The objective of Dornyei's book is to provide a single-authored monograph on language individual differences (ID) research. Based on this objective, the author provides a consistent and comprehensive review of the most up-to-date studies in this field. In doing so, he extends the traditional boundary of ID research and includes some important learner variables from other fields, such as psychology and sociology.
Success with Foreign Languages In his previous books Stevick has addressed teachers of languages. Now he turns also to learners - and to the learner within each teacher. file type: pdf size: 2 MB pages: 174
