Building a better vocabulary
Streaming video - 2015
For anyone who has ever grasped for the perfect word, this course provides a research-based and enjoyable method for improving your vocabulary. Your professor understands the cognitive science behind language acquisition and presents each new word in a way that makes it memorable. But more importantly, he teaches you these tips and strategies so you can apply them whenever you learn a new word.
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- Published
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[United States] :
The Great Courses
2015.
- Language
- English
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- Online Access
- Instantly available on hoopla.
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- 1 online resource (36 video files (approximately 1080 min.)) : sd., col
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Audience
- Rated TVPG.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
- Episode 1 Five Principles for Learning Vocabulary Episode 2 The Spelling-Meaning Connection Episode 3 Words for Lying, Swindling, and Conniving Episode 4 Words That Express Annoyance and Disgust Episode 5 Fighting Words and Peaceful Words Episode 6 Going beyond Dictionary Meanings Episode 7 Wicked Words Episode 8 Words for Beginnings and Endings Episode 9 Words Expressing Fear, Love, and Hatred Episode 10 Words for the Everyday and the Elite Episode 11 Words from Gods and Heroes Episode 12 Humble Words and Prideful Words Episode 13 High-Frequency Greek and Latin Roots Episode 14 Words Relating to Belief and Trust Episode 15 Words for the Way We Talk Episode 16 Words for Praise, Criticism, and Nonsense Episode 17 Eponyms from Literature and History Episode 18 Thinking, Teaching, and Learning Words Episode 19 Words for the Diligent and the Lazy Episode 20 Words That Break and Words That Join Episode 21 Some High-Utility Greek and Latin Affixes Episode 22 Cranky Words and Cool Words Episode 23 Words for Courage and Cowardice Episode 24 Reviewing Vocabulary through Literature Episode 25 Words for Killing and Cutting Episode 26 A Vocabulary Grab Bag Episode 27 Words for Words Episode 28 Specialty Words for Language Episode 29 Nasty Words and Nice Words Episode 30 Words for the Really Big and the Very Small Episode 31 Spelling as a Vocabulary Tool Episode 32 A Medley of New Words Episode 33 Building Vocabulary through Games Episode 34 Words English Borrowed and Never Returned Episode 35 More Foreign Loan Words Episode 36 Forgotten Words and Neologisms.