20803820English for Computer Science.ppt

“ ” “ ”English for Computer Science Lecture 2 Reading in General (1) Importance of Words in Reading Handling Known Words Understanding Unknown Words Using Dictionaries Reading Practice 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. 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 . 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 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 Using Dictionaries Paper dictionaries Electronic dictionaries English-English dictionaries English-Chinese dictionaries Chinese-English dictionaries Bilingual dictionaries General-purpose dictionaries Dictionaries for CS English Reading Practice Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. See you next time. Carol Burnett “ ” “ ”