Textbooks are an important source of knowledge input on which the transmission academic often relies, especially in early stages learning. Adopting a corpus-based approach, this study evaluates text difficulty science textbooks used secondary English-medium instruction schools Hong Kong, with focus their lexical coverage and readability. It compares English language that as foreign textbooks. T...

This paper reports a study which investigated if there was a match between students’ English vocabulary size and the vocabulary load of a locally produced textbook. The analysis of the passages of the pre-university English textbook currently in use in Iran’s education system using RANGE program indicated that in order to comprehend the texts, students need to know not only words from 2000 high...

This paper reports a study which investigated if there was a match between students’ English vocabulary size and the vocabulary load of a locally produced textbook. The analysis of the passages of the pre-university English textbook currently in use in Iran’s education system using RANGE program indicated that in order to comprehend the texts, students need to know not only words from 2000 high...

Programming Project A/B – Language-specific word crawler / word list manager The task is to program an efficient language-specific word crawler. It may be based on a language-specific web page crawler, which is described below (Talvensaari 2008). The web pages may then be split into words and organized into a data structure giving words and their frequencies. Such a word list is needed for a cr...

The production effect is the substantial benefit to memory of having studied information aloud as opposed to silently. MacLeod, Gopie, Hourihan, Neary, and Ozubko (2010) have explained this enhancement by suggesting that a word studied aloud acquires a distinctive encoding record and that recollecting this record supports identifying a word studied aloud as "old." This account was tested using ...