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Lin, Grace Hui Chin – Online Submission, 2019
This linguistic research introduces Communication Strategies (CS) which can be applied to interpret medical terminologies. Jeffrey Cordell (2019) mentions using computer interpretation is also a good way to make the terms being displayed and interpreted by certain apps. This study focused on humanized environment of clinic or hospital that…
Descriptors: Medicine, Vocabulary, Communication Strategies, Interlanguage
de Carlo, Nickolas Sebastiano – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Pure synonymy is a myth. This is true in the lexicon of a language as well as its grammar. As such, why do grammars of Dutch label the following two forms below as synonymous? Unsplit: "Daarmee heb ik een probleem." Therewith have I a problem. Split: "Daar heb ik een probleem mee." There have I a problem with. "I have a…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Grammar
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Hickey, Tina; Stenson, Nancy – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
Irish has significant State support, but lacks a research base to support the teaching of Irish reading. Current approaches to teaching Irish reading are presented, and outcomes summarised. Issues of consistency and complexity in Irish orthography are discussed in light of an analysis of a corpus of early reader texts, and the formulation of rules…
Descriptors: State Aid, Second Language Learning, Decoding (Reading), Irish
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Foorman, Barbara R.; Arndt, Elissa J.; Crawford, Elizabeth C. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2011
Currently students who struggle with language and literacy learning are classified with various labels in different states--language learning disabilities, dyslexia, specific language impairment, and specific learning disability--in spite of having similar diagnostic profiles. Drawing on the research on comprehension of written language, we…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reading Consultants, Written Language, Learning Disabilities
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Kennison, Shelia M. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
The research investigated how comprehenders use verb information during syntactic parsing. Two reading experiments investigated the relationship between verb-specific variables and reading time. These experiments were close replications of prior work; however, two statistical techniques were used, rather than one. These were item-by-item…
Descriptors: Verbs, Eye Movements, Syntax, Language Processing
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Gomez, Pablo; Ratcliff, Roger; Perea, Manuel – Psychological Review, 2008
Recent research has shown that letter identity and letter position are not integral perceptual dimensions (e.g., jugde primes judge in word-recognition experiments). Most comprehensive computational models of visual word recognition (e.g., the interactive activation model, J. L. McClelland & D. E. Rumelhart, 1981, and its successors) assume that…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Correlation, Models, Decoding (Reading)
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Hazoury, Katia H.; Oweini, Ahmad A.; Bahous, Rima – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2009
This paper proposes a technique for teaching decoding of the Arabic language to Arab dyslexic students following the multisensory, systematic, explicit phonics approach and based in part on the Orton-Gillingham approach. This technique emphasizes vocabulary controlled, font-modified, cumulative, color-coded reading materials, and orthographic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Materials, Phonics, Dyslexia