... children inthe lowest reading group were relatively orallyproficient inEnglish (after two years of schooling in English) , but still couldn’t read well. In summarizing the findings, the authors ... make sure that the words activated in their minds fit with the meaning ofthe context. In addition, they must linknew information to what they have already read, as well as to theirbackground ... English- speaking students and may nottap into the issues encountered by ELLs as they read in English. Such issues includeinterference from the students’ first languageinthe areas of phonology or writing...
... 'How interesting', startingat a low pitch and dropping their voice on the 'int' of 'interesting' I will befairly despondent since by their use of pitch and intonation they ... who is in a position to select the textbook which their students are going to use. The Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching deals specifically with the teaching ofEnglish as a Foreign Language ... transferred to the use of English. In other words, we may not beteaching them to read, but we are teaching them to read in English. Andbecause they are dealing with a foreign language we will...
... printout are the scheme's main features. One ofthe most discussed problems inthe automatic translation of Russian documents into English is the insertion ofEnglish articles inthe output. ... question is meaningful only in terms ofthe incrementing of consumer appeal ofthe product, and it would be difficult to answer without research in that very area. From the point of view of an MT ... criteria in the determination ofEnglish articles to the exclusion of all other considerations, or use a combined syntactico- statistical method; the aim of all such routines is the selection of...
... ignore the findings of surveys, wherein the initial screening was 'symptom elicitation'. Disregarding the findings of these surveys had led Dye et al to estimate of prevalence of bacteriological ... as possible, inthe Indian context. Under the auspices ofthe WHO, Chakraborty re-estimated the burden of disease in The Indian Journal of Tuberculosis ESTIMATING THE BURDEN OF PULMONARY ... providing an estimate ofthe tuberculosis burden in India4. It is presently intended to discuss some of the problems here, in arriving at the estimate ofthe tuberculosis burden inthe country....
... ADAPTING THE DIALOGUE TO THEIR LIVES.(Using prompts)Explain to the students that they are going to do the dialogue again in pairs, using their own information. This time the teacher is going ... you have:CDSP/CQ inEnglish CDSP BA in Russian + CDSP/TC inEnglish CDSP/TC inEnglish DHSP BA in Russian + CDSP/TC inEnglish DHSP/CQ inEnglish DHSP/TC inEnglish Other (specify): ... with the next finger.Squeeze the two fingers together to show the contraction (e.g. “I’ve“).[b] missing worde.g. “I’ve got a bike.”Point to the finger which represents the missing word in the...
... 2: An Investigation into the Current Performance ofEnglish Teaching and Learning in Junior High Schools in Quang Ngai Province 72.1. Introduction 72.2. The Junior High School Community in Quang ... 39Appendix 41iii2.6.2. Findings and discussion 9 2.6.2.1. Teachers’ Personal Information 9• Age of teachers 9• Teaching experience and training 9• Qualifications 10 2.6.2.2. Information about ... Improve the Teaching of Oral Skills for Junior High School Teachers in Quang Ngai Province 14 3.1. Techniques for teaching speaking 14 3.1.1. Introduction 14 3.1.2. Controlled speaking activities...
... neither English nor French is spoken receive most of their schooling inEnglish or French, depending on the area ofthe country in which they live. Because the major-ity of provinces in Canada offer ... understanding of the reading process, including reading failure. Since the con-cept of learning disability was first outlined by Samuel Kirk(1963), investigators have concentrated on identifying the basic ... Columbia The purpose of this article is to review published studies oftheEnglish literacy of children in Canada who are Englishlanguage learners (ELLs) with the goal of understanding the read-ing...
... knowledge ofthe field and professionals, stating that the loan-word best conveys the meaning ofthe new concept and the use of loan words sounds smarter and high-class. Interestingly, inthe translation ... grammatical category which the SL lacks. Likewise, the change inthe information content of the message may be inthe form of omitting information specified inthe source text. If the TL lacks a grammatical ... specified. In other words, the person or thing affected by an action, which would be the object ofthe verb inthe active form in an active structure, becomes the subject ofthe verb inthe passive...
... disambiguated word meaning. It is thein interaction ofthe results of these asynchronous processes that the process of comprehension is defined. The processes are independent ofthe know- ledge ... affected. The study includes off-line picture naming which forces use of articles in all ofthe above contexts, as well as on-line production of these morphemes in an attempt to determine in which ... Because ofthe parallel activation of all meanings of each recognized word in HOPE, the determination ofthe phonetic representation of a recognized word determines the breadth of active...
... somepreliminary results of an investigation in course on the typology ofthe morphol-ogy ofthe native South American lan-guages from the point of view ofthe for-mal language theory. With ... processusing finite automata again we must enlarge the lexicon size. The resulting grammar, althoughtcapable of modeling the morphology ofthe toba,would not work effectively. The effectiveness of ... and prefixes. Inthe next example the suffix-ation ofthe reflexive (−lat) forces the use of the active person with prefixes ofthe voice mediumclass because the agent is affected by the action.Example...
... and the entropy of a single feature:G(D, f) = H(D) − H(Df) The information gain G(D, f) is the reduction in uncertainty in D we expect to achieve by learning the value ofthe feature f. In other ... H(Df=vi) is the entropy of subset ofthe in- stance base which has value vifor feature f. The information gain of a feature then is simply the difference between the total entropy ofthe in- stance ... data moreoften then the pair b, a, then a ≺ b. If the re-verse is true, and b, a is found more often thana, b, then b ≺ a. If neither order appears in the training data, then neither a...