The Vocabulary Notebook as Vehicle for Vocabulary Acquisition

Vocabulary Acquisition through Frequency Exposure via Reading

Contextual vocabulary acquisition as computational philosophy and as philosophical computation

Contextual vocabulary acquisition as computational philosophy and as philosophical computation William J. Rapaport a & Michael W. Kibby b a Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics, and Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA b Department of Learning and Instruction and Center for Li...

Words as Tools: Learning Academic Vocabulary as Language Acquisition

ness Academic language is also typically more abstract than everyday conversation. A math text, for example, might contain abstract nouns such as length, width, circumference, addition, and subtraction. A biology text might contain abstract nouns for processes, such as respiration or mitosis. Putting These Together What we want to stress here is that these six facts about academic language are ...

Interactive Vocabulary Acquisition in XTRA

This paper describes a practical solution to online dictionary update in X T R A , a machine translat ion system developed by X iuming Huang at the Computing Research Laboratory of New Mexico State University. The focus of the discussion in on IVES — an Interactive Vocabulary Enrichment System bui l t by this writer for X T R A , It reflects an ongoing effort at the laboratory to build embedded...

Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition of Verbs

This paper describes a computational implementation of an algorithm to define an ”unknown” verb based on the information in the context it appears in and any applicable background knowledge that the reader brings to bear. First, it describes some related research that has taken place and how it may be applied to the Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition (CVA) project. Next, it describes the process...