ELTWeekly Issue#106
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#106, Download Book: Perceptions and Strategies of Learning in English by Singapore Primary School Children with Dyslexia
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#106 | December 5 | ISSN 0975-3036
source: teachingenglish.org.uk
Learners with dyslexia have difficulties in reading and writing. In Singapore there are about 20,000 primary and secondary school learners with dyslexia. This paper presents research findings on the perceptions and feelings of primary school learners with dyslexia in Singapore regarding their learning of school subjects through English, together with how they use strategies to overcome some difficulties. (more…)
#106, Article: Revising lexis: quality or quantity?
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#106 | December 5 | ISSN 0975-3036
source: teachingenglish.org.uk
This article discusses how much attention language teachers should pay to vocabulary acquisition research, particularly with regard to repeated encounters with lexical items.
Introduction
Sometime in the middle of the last century, Benjamin Whorf, famous for his contention that language shapes thought, made a controversial statement about the Eskimo language having seven words for snow. Frequently quoted or, rather misquoted overtime, Whorf’s number of snow words was inflated to nine, twenty, fifty, and even one hundred. A similar snowball effect seems to be taking place with the contentious issue of how many exposures a vocabulary item needs for its retention. (more…)