This study investigated the effect of Narrow Reading (NR) on learning mid-frequency words. Vocabulary Size Test (VST) designed by Nation and Beglar (2007) was administered as the first pre-test to 196 students, from among whom 91 students whose vocabulary size ranged between 2100- 3500-word families, , became the target of this study and were randomly c...

the translator’s multilateral role as auser and processor of the source text as well as the producer of the targettext in today’s multi-cultural and multilingual communications has always drawnresearchers’ attention to examining translators’ actions and behavior includingthe translation process of  novicetranslators this study, outlined in the framework of descriptive translationstudies (dts), ...

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Our goal in this project is to develop a better understanding of young readers’ difficulties in comprehending text, and how those difficulties vary as a function of reader aptitudes and text genre. Therefore, we examined the effects of reading decoding abilities and world knowledge (assessed using the Woodcock–Johnson III Tests of Achievement) on 61 third-grade readers’ comprehension of narrati...

Writing effectively about multivariate analysis involves a range of skills, including those that are typically taught in graduate courses or seminars about expository writing, multivariate regression, and research methods. This paper discusses how to integrate teaching of these skills into a graduate sociology program, including suggestions for courses and informal teaching settings into which ...

disabilities are spending more and more time in the general classroom (McLeskey, Henry, & Axelrod, 1999), where they are exposed to the same wealth and variety of information as their peers. But students like J.T. often face higher expectations of productivity in these inclusive environments than they may have traditionally experienced in separate special education settings. Many students with ...

PURPOSE This research investigated the expository language skills of young school-age children with the ultimate aim of obtaining normative data for clinical practice. Specifically, this study examined (a) the level of expository language performance of 6- and 7-year-old children with typical development and (b) age-related differences between young and older school-age children. METHOD Expos...

This article deals with the issue of dialogue as a speech genre and  component dramatic text. Because being limited, only contrastive analysis first stage expository dialogue  original and translated texts “Hamlet” is conducted in this article. The exposition ‘Hamlet’ consists two different but interrelated stages – at presented  conversation between Hamlet his friends within sec...