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20803820
English for Computer Science
Lecture 2
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Reading in General (1)
Importance of Words in Reading Handling Known Words Understanding Unknown Words Using Dictionaries Reading Practice
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Importance of Words in Reading
Words are the building blocks of a passage.
Many students believe their English is poor because their vocabulary is small.
The set of words in a special CS area is more or less finite and closed.
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Handling Known Words
Just because you “know” a word doesn’t mean you can always understand it correctly.
It is important to refer to context to understand known words.
There has been a minute improvement in the working conditions of the factory.
I sometimes develop, print and enlarge my own photographs, but usually I have them processed at a camera shop.
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Understanding Unknown Words
Using context
Using etymological knowledge
Expanding your domain CS vocabulary
In machine learning, ensemble methods use multiple learning algorithms to obtain better predictive performance.
asynchronous, interdisciplinary, immutable, underpinning, perturbation, reimburse
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In-Class Exercise
Explain the meaning of the following words with your word-building knowledge. You can use any kind of dictionary and/or seek online or offline help.
infallible
heterogeneous
nanotechnology
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Understanding Unknown Words
Expanding your domain CS vocabulary
Amass academic words in your research domain
Do not fall prey to shortcuts to large vocabulary
Befriend vocabulary building books and good dictionaries
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Using Dictionaries
Paper dictionaries
Electronic dictionaries
English-English dictionaries
English-Chinese dictionaries
Chinese-English dictionaries
Bilingual dictionaries
General-purpose dictionaries
Dictionaries for CS English
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Reading Practice
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
See you next time.
Carol Burnett