elicit - deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant" educe, evoke, extract, draw out construe, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you inte...
"Very imaginative", "That's correct English, but not what I was looking for" etc, the right answer might not stick in students' minds, and the fact that it was the right answer might even be completely missed by distracted students. One technique is to give positive ...
Forexample,‚what’sthesynonymfor‘tedious’?‛Whenelicitingtheword‘boring’,itdeepensthestudents’recognitionoftheword‘tedious’.Ifitisnoteasytofindoutthemeaningofsomewordsorthebackgroundknowledgeofacertaintopic,theteachercantrytoputitinacontexttomakeitmoreunderstandable.
A semistructured measure was developed from early descriptive work by Lipowski to elicit the meaning of breast cancer using eight preset categories: challenge, enemy, punishment, weakness, relief, strategy, irreparable loss, and value. This measure was applied in two studies: a cross-sectional surve...
⑥ If it is not easy to find out the meaning of some words or the background knowledge of a certain topic, the teacher can try to put it in a context to make it more understandable. ⑦ If necessary, examples can be very practical. For example: For example: ...
(2013). Equation structure and the meaning of the equal sign: The impact of task selection in eliciting elementary students' understandings. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 32(2), 173-182.Stephens, A. C., Knuth, E. J., Blanton, M. L., Isler, I., Gardiner, A. M., & Marum...
From the lexical aspect, the two following English sentences are equally matched to the query sentence with a slight difference by one word. While A4 is superficially closer to C as it retains all content words, it fails to preserve the intended meaning of C. In A4, the prepositional substit...
“quarantine” originates from the Venetian dialectquaranta giorni, meaning ‘forty days’ for the length of isolation of ships for detection of plague symptoms [38]. This separation of infected people was used to prevent the spread of disease, and is recorded as far back as the Old Testament...
The dislike for certain features, such as daily insertion and a lot of wet- ness, was such that when combined in the same product, the sum of their negative weights outweighed the benefit of higher efficacy; meaning, the majority of women were willing to trade some level of efficacy to ...
The meaning of this emotion is then explored primarily through open-ended and evaluative follow-up questions. The results are in line with previous research demonstrating that when interviewers emphasise the importance of evaluative information by adding specific cues or evaluative questions, children ...