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Cobb, Tom – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
Some words in English are derived words, i.e., words with an affix that changes their part of speech, like know "(v)" [right arrow] "knowable (adj)," or meaning, like "pleasant (adj)" [right arrow] "unpleasant (adj)." As a reading teacher, Tom Cobb had always believed that derived words were not particularly…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cobb, Tom – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
Making Nation's text analysis software accessible via the World Wide Web has opened up an exploration of how his learning principles can best be realized in practice. This paper discusses 3 representative episodes in the ongoing exploration. The first concerns an examination of the assumptions behind modeling what texts look like to learners with…
Descriptors: Nouns, Word Lists, Computer Software, Internet