Discourse Analysis and Vocabulary

Is it possible to delimit procedural vocabulary?

• Tasks for Teachers and Learners

• Is it possible to delimit procedural vocabulary?
• What happens if the most common signaling words are not known by learners?
• If all languages have text-organizing vocabulary, can the teaching/learning process capitalize on transfer in some ways?

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• Nurture, Not Torture—Training

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• Writing Ability

• Reading Comprehension

• Vocabulary Building

Represent segments of text

• The Role of Discourse-organizing Words

• Represent segments of text
• Parcel up phrases and whole sentences

• Text

• Discourse-organizing Words

• Comprehension

• Prediction

• Vocabulary Study

• 3.6 Signaling Larger Textual Patterns

Representing segments of text

• The Role of Discourse Organizers in Larger or Longer Text

• Representing segments of text
• Parceling up phrases and whole sentences
• Signaling to the reader what larger textual patterns are being realized

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• The Illustration of the Function of Discourse Organizers in Larger or Longer Text

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• Text

• Discourse-organizing
• Mechanism

• Comprehension

• Prediction

• Reinforcement

• Teaching and Learning

• Bottom-up

• Top-down

TOP-DWON: Once learners are conscious of a larger text-pattern, they can be brought to an awareness of the rich vein of vocabulary

• Teaching and Learning Tips for Textual Patterning

• TOP-DWON: Once learners are conscious of a larger text-pattern, they can be brought to an awareness of the rich vein of vocabulary
• BOTTOM-UP: Learners can bring together in their vocabulary records items that regularly occur in similar textual environments