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LIMITATIONS OF SIZE AND LEVELS TESTS OF WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Two commonly used test types to assess vocabulary knowledge for the purpose of reading are size and levels tests. This article first reviews several frequently stated purposes of such tests (e.g., materials selection, tracking vocabulary growth) and ...
Tim Stoeckel, Stuart Mclean, P. Nation
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Mapping symbolic knowledge into locally receptive field networks

1995
This paper investigates Locally Receptive Field Networks, a broad class of neural networks including Probabilistic Neural Networks and Radial Basis Function Networks, which naturally exhibit symbolic properties. Moreover, specific attention is given to the sub-class of Factorizable Radial Basis Function Networks whose architecture can be directly ...
Blanzieri, Enrico, A. Giordana
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Afro-Brazilian religions: knowledge, reception and resistance.

Fotocronografias, 2022
This study analyzes the resistance strategies promoted by the Afro-Brazilian Religions, which have been fighting for the right to be in social spaces, as well as for the preservation of their identities in an affirmative way regarding the recognition and valorization of their knowledge and religiosities.
de Oliveira Evangelista, Lázaro, de Freitas Corrêa Siqueira, Carolina   +1 more
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Receptivity and Phenomenal Self-Knowledge

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2013
In this article, I argue that an epistemic question about knowledge of our own phenomenal states encourages a certain metaphysical picture of consciousness according to which phenomenal states are reflexive mental representations. Section 1 describes and motivates the thesis that phenomenal self-knowledge is ‘receptive’: that is, the view that a ...
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Assessing AI receptivity through a persuasion knowledge lens

Current Opinion in Psychology
Understanding human-artificial intelligence (AI) interactions is a growing academic interest. This article conceptualizes AI as a persuasion agent and reviews the recent literature on AI through the lens of persuasion knowledge. It presents research on AI acceptance and aversion in terms of the properties of the AI itself (e.g., anthropomorphism ...
Jared Watson, Francesca Valsesia, Shoshana Segal   +2 more
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Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past

Social History, 2017
The question of how knowledge about sex has been constructed in various places and times is an enduring topic of interest among historians of sexuality.
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Exploring factors contributing to the receptive and productive knowledge of phrasal verbs in the EFL context

WORD, 2019
Phrasal verbs are one of the most challenging features of English for most learners. This difficulty is compounded by the very limited amount of linguistic exposure EFL learners receive outside the classroom setting.
Taha Omidian, Maryam Akbary, Hesamoddin Shahriari   +2 more
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Receptivity and Our Knowledge of Intrinsic Properties*

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2002
This is a marvelous book. Langton offers a fresh interpretation of Kant, the main tenets of which she states in a few bold propositions and then goes on to elaborate with great clarity and care. She supports her interpretation with a wealth of citations accompanied by insightful commentary.
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Studying the Circulation of Academic Knowledge as Reception

2023
The earliest Reception Studies (RS) of academic knowledge, in the 1910s, have drawn little attention. This chapter introduces some of these works, before moving to the late twentieth century, when RS consolidated. Different pieces are surveyed to highlight the four identified ways and various methods through which academic knowledge’s reception can be ...
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Investigating Arabic Academic Vocabulary Knowledge Among Middle School Pupils: Receptive Versus Productive Knowledge

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The current study attempted to investigate the development of Arabic academic vocabulary knowledge among middle-school Arabic native speakers, taking into account the socioeconomic status of the Arab population in Israel. For this purpose, Arabic academic word list was developed, mapping the required academic words that are needed for adequate coping ...
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