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UNINA9910783509503321 |
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Titolo |
Teaching and learning vocabulary [[electronic resource] ] : bringing research to practice / / edited by Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Michael L. Kamil |
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Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005 |
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1-135-60545-9 |
1-282-32527-2 |
9786612325274 |
1-4106-1292-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HiebertElfrieda H |
KamilMichael L |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Vocabulary - Study and teaching |
Language arts |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; 1 Teaching and Learning Vocabulary: Perspectives and Persistent Issues; PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON HOW VOCABULARY IS LEARNED; PART II: INSTRUCTION AND INTERVENTIONS THAT ENHANCE VOCABULARY; PART III: PERSPECTIVES ON WHICH WORDS TO CHOOSE FOR INSTRUCTION; Author Index; Subject Index |
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Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over the last two decades. Recognizing this, the U.S. Department of Education recently sponsored a Focus on Vocabulary conference that attracted the best-known and most active researchers in the vocabulary field. This book is the outgrowth of that conference. It presents scientific evidence from leading research programs that address persistent issues regarding the role of vocabulary in text comprehension. Part I examines how voca |
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UNINA9910970461503321 |
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Autore |
MacKenzie Donald A |
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An engine, not a camera : how financial models shape markets / / Donald MacKenzie |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
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9786612097676 |
9780262250047 |
0262250047 |
9781282097674 |
1282097679 |
9780262278805 |
0262278804 |
9781423774488 |
1423774485 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Capital market - Mathematical models |
Derivative securities - Mathematical models |
Financial crises - Mathematical models |
Financial crises |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgements; 1 Performing Theory?; 2 Transforming Finance; 3 Theory and Practice; 4 Tests, Anomalies, and Monsters; 5 Pricing Options; 6 Pits, Bodies, and Theorems; 7 The Fall; 8 Arbitrage; 9 Models and Markets; Appendix A An Example of Modigliani and Miller's "Arbitrage Proof" of the Irrelevance of Capital Structure to Total Market Value; Appendix B Lévy Distributions; Appendix C Sprenkle's and Kassouf's Equations for Warrant Prices; Appendix D The Black-Scholes Equation for a European Option on a Non- Dividend-Bearing Stock; Appendix E Pricing Options in a Binomial World |
Appendix F Repo, Haircuts, and Reverse RepoAppendix G A Typical Swap-Spread Arbitrage Trade; Appendix H List of Interviewees; |
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Glossary; Notes; Sources of Unpublished Documents; References; Series List; Index |
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This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. |
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