Essays about: "Lexical inferencing"
Found 4 essays containing the words Lexical inferencing.
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1. “Two brains are often better than one, probably”: Adult ESL learners’ paired and individual lexical inferencing task performances, in relation to L2 proficiency
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : This research concerns lexical inferencing (LI), i.e., the ability to infer the meaning of unknown words in a running text (Haastrup, 1991). Despite its advantages, there is little research on LI as a collaborative effort. READ MORE
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2. Type Inferencing and MATLAB to Modelica Translation
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Tekniska högskolanAbstract : Matlab is a proprietary, interactive, dynamically-typed language for technical computing. It is widely used for prototyping algorithms and applications of scientific computations. Since it is a dynamically typed language, the execution of programs has to be analyzed and interpreted which results in lower computational performance. READ MORE
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3. The inferencing behaviour of Swedish EFL university students: A quantitative analysis of lexical inferencing in relation to vocabulary depth
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The empirical study reported in this essay concerns Swedish university level learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) and their lexical inferencing skills, that is, their ability to guess the meaning of unknown words in a running text using different types of knowledge and textual cues (Haastrup, 1991). More precisely, the present investigation explores the relationship between students’ inferencing behaviour and the quality of their vocabulary knowledge, which is commonly referred to as vocabulary depth (Qian, 2002). READ MORE
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4. A study on lexical inferencing : to what extent, and in what ways, do pupils make use of the lexical inferencing strategies, learnt in school when they encounter and unknown English word in their spare time?
University essay from Institutionen för individ och samhälleAbstract : Background: During our VFU (Workplace-based Education), we met a teacher, who worked with metacognitive strategies, and used a holistic, top-down approach with her pupils. The teacher had been working with them in this way for three years. READ MORE