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Download full textZhao, Heping – 1992
Victor Raskin's taxonomy of knowledge, based on semantics theory, is adapted and applied to composition in English as a Second Language (ESL). Raskin's classification of knowledge as linguistic and encyclopedic is converted to a continuum from textual to extra-contextual, with contextual knowledge situated between the two. Textual knowledge is…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Linguistic Theory
