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General language
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General language
Fluency
Language; General language
The ability to use language automatically, accurately, and quickly for constructing meaning.
Gist
Language; General language
Understanding text as a whole by extracting and inferring information (getting the gist).
Vocabulary study
Language; General language
The practise of listening, speaking, reading, and writing specific meanings of words in text through understanding of prefixes, suffixes, and base works, origins, context clues, definitions, multiple ...
Text
Language; General language
Text refers broadly to any communication product: oral (e.g., speeches, conversations, and audiotapes); written (e.g., essays, stories, articles, novels, and poems); and visual (e.g. illustrations, ...
Text elements
Language; General language
The dimensions of content that relate the ideas in text; in narrative text: setting, characters, events, problem, solution, and theme; in expository text: central purpose, major ideas, and supporting ...
Text structure
Language; General language
The various patterns of ideas embedded in the organisation of text. Common patters include cause-effect, comparison-contrast, problem-solution, description, and sequence.
Thesis
Language; General language
The basic argument put forward by a speaker or writer who attempts to prove the argument; the subject or major argument of a composition.
