In the Mayor of Casterbridge experiment reported in Chapter 4, frequently repeated words were acquired by more of the learners than words that occurred in the text less often. ... In the newspaper texts experiment reported in Chapter 5, frequently repeated items were not acquired by more learners than less frequent items. ... Secondly, much of the total growth that was eventually reported - after ten textual exposures in the case of R, and after eight in the case of W - had already occurred in the early stages of the experiments. ... Indeed, devoting the ESL reading class hour to doing exten...

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The doctoral program in educational technology at Iowa State University is one example of this type of specialized program. ... One area of that report dealt with teacher education. ... Even with the growing recognition of the need for work on ITTE, it is interesting to note that the 1200-page Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (Jonassen, 1996) does not have a chapter on technology and teacher education, and the term teacher education does not appear in the index of the book. ... Paradigms or "world views" are above the concerns of data types. Although empiric...

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ENG 214: RESEARCH METHODS LECTURERS: Mrs Abdulsalam Nike and Mr Mathias Orhero This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, methods and technicalities of research writing. In every institution of the world, students must submit a form of research work or another as a pre-requisit...

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