... suggest that computers may do a better job of solving the scarcity-of-repetitions problem. One particularly interesting idea involves reading L2 texts on a computer screen with the assistance of a concordancing program. Concordancers are designed to search a large body of texts at great speed, gather all the lines of text that contain a particular item, and list them so that the reader can easily evaluate many ... instances of the word in use. Cobb (2000) has developed a website that allows learners ... be comparable in every way except for the modality aspect, the reading treatment wo...

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... Middle Ages more than humanism as both a program and a philosophy. The humanists of the Renaissance rediscovered the Latin and Greek classics (hence the "rebirth" or "renaissance" of the classical world), that humanist philosophy stressed the dignity of humanity, and that humanists shifted intellectual emphasis off of theology and logic to specifically human studies. In pursuing this program the argument ... has respect and worth and therefore should command the respect of every other person. The humanistic movement began during the early Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the w...

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