... most of their schooling inEnglish or French, depending on thearea of the country in which they live. Because the major-ity of provinces in Canada offer educational instruction in English, many immigrant ... 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 thebasic ... notconsistent in their reporting of the level of proficiency in first language for ELLs. Thus, it is not known to what extentfirst language proficiency in ELLs in uenced the findings of studies we...
... native language reading instructiondoes not precede or coincide with English reading instruction, then English readinginstruction should be delayed until a modicum of oral English proficiency ... theeffectiveness of various types of L2 instruction are being redefined and stipulated accordingto various moderator variables. These include the internal status of a learner’s inter -language, age, language ... nottap into the issues encountered by ELLs as they read in English. Such issues includeinterference from the students’ first languagein the areas of phonology or writing (includingspelling,...
... major source of unhappiness inmodern society. For that reasonhe pleas for investments in curing and preventing mental disorders. Prevention shouldnot only involve interventions at the individual ... profes sor in economics and a Downing Stre et advisor in the UK. He was trying to persuade the government to train an army of psychotherapists. In his influential book ‘ Happiness: lessons of ... living condi-tions in society, the more the remaining differences in happiness depend on inner lifeability. As a result, the negative effects of mental disorder will catch the eye more in modern...
... the combination of individual writing assignment; if students not joining this activity, their final mark reduced. ã The final mark being the average of the marks of group papers, individual ... writing is an innovative approach to teaching writing in EFL classrooms in Vietnam. This method inspired the students’ motivation in learning writing skill at Vinh University. The purpose of ... skill (speaking, listening, writing or reading). The following is the review of the studies, observation concerning making group work an active tool in improving EFL teaching and learning results....
... theuse ofEnglish can be considered an important qualificationdistinguishing researchers who are fluent inEnglish fromothers lagging behind in many non -English- speakingcountries. German investigators ... that pressures investigators topublish their work in journals indexed by Index Medicus andthe Institute for Scientific Information because of the visibility of papers appearing in the PubMed ... committee of the studied conference mighthave invited the use ofEnglishin an attempt to increase thenumber of non-German-speaking delegates. In conclusion, we found that about one-quarter of theabstracts...
... are going to use.The Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching deals specifically withthe teaching ofEnglish as a Foreign Language (EFL). It is not focusedespecially on English as a Second Language ... Handbooks for Language TeachersThe Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching New Edition - Jeremy HarmerAn Introduction to EnglishLanguage Teaching - John HaycraftTeaching Oral English New Edition ... your first language) ?2 Can you think of situations in your language where it would beinappropriate to say certain things? Do you address different people in different ways in your language? ...
... detection of English inclusions in mixed-lingual data with an applicationto parsing. Ph.D. thesis, Institute for Communicat-ing and Collaborative Systems, School of Informatics,University of Edinburgh.Eduardo ... between stem frequency in Covoduring year t and frequency change in MZEE between tand year u = t + iInitial frequency and dissemination in MZEE In studying the fate of all words in two En-glish ... debates often frame borrowing as evidence of cultural or linguistic decline, it is particularly per-vasive in youth culture, which is often heavily in u-enced by North American trends. In many...
... main computations of the Inside-Outside algorithm are indexed using the CKY procedure which is a bottom-up chart parsing algorithm. To summarize the main points 190 in our adaptation of ... wc call unconstrained training, of maximizing the likelihood of an unbrackctcd corpus. We will later describe the modifica- tions necessary to train with the constraint of a bracketed corpus. ... Ingria, It., Mar- cus, M., Santorini, B., and Strzalkowski, T Evaluat- ing Syntax Performance of Parser/Grammars of English. Proceedings of Natural Language Processing Systems Evaluation Workshop,...
... thetwo cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to thetruth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours ... character of the painting is by referring him to the engravings of Albert Durer and the serious parts of Chaucer. There is the same want of proper costume the same intense feeling of the human being, ... Paine. Think of the unshrinking gaze which Dante fixes upon the tortures of the souls in pain; of the wasted body of Christupon the cross; of the fasts, flagellations, mortifications of penitents;...
... their beginning English speaking skills, helping them to their beginning English speaking skills, helping them to their beginning English speaking skills, helping them to their beginning English ... ELD, English reading, English writing, primary language ELD, English reading, English writing, primary language reading and primary language writing. On average, reading and primary language ... teaching ofEnglishlanguage learners. improve their teaching ofEnglishlanguage learners. improve their teaching ofEnglishlanguage learners. eir top choices included second language reading/...
... question is meaningful only in terms of the incrementing of consumer appeal of the product, and it would be difficult to answer without research in that very area. From the point of view of an MT ... multiple printout are the scheme's main features. One of the most discussed problems in the automatic translation of Russian documents into English is the insertion ofEnglish articles in the ... reaction to it. With these thoughts in mind, a close examination of several texts, in English, was undertaken to determine something about the patterns of occurrence of the arti- cles. Some simple...
... the influenceof mistakes in the selection of subjects,underscoring the importance of the use of a structuredpsychiatric interview when people are enrolled a ... absence of a psy-chiatric screening interview might represent an impor-tant confounding variable in studies regarding thebiological basis of personality traits in healthy po pula-tions. Indeed, ... M, Goto K, Otani K: Combination of the serotonin transporter and norepinephrine transporter genepromoter polymorphisms might influence harm avoidance and noveltyseeking in healthy females. Neurosci...
... subject to the change in language. The use of biased languagein clinical journals was infre-quent, with no increase in the use of value-laden wordsover the twenty year interval (figure 3). ... Rising Impact of the Impact FactorChanging attitudes towards scientific publication must beexamined in tandem with the changing role of the impactfactor in assessing the merits of a body of ... an increase in the wordTable 1: JournalsNew England Journal of Medicine 44.016Science 30.927Nature Medicine 28.878Journal of Clinical Investigation 15.053Journal of Experimental Medicine...
... distribution of SNPs in the studiedpatients and the cohort of healthy controls is shown in detail in Table 1.Clinical influenceof genotypes on postoperative infection severity in surgical ... = 0.02). This effect was not influ-enced by the type of infection in these two genotypegroups. However, an influenceof infection type wasobserved in the remaining subgroups (TLR4, TIRAP/Malheterozygous ... isthought to explain, at least in part, individual differences in the reaction of patients to similar infectious stimuli. An influence of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of pathogen recognition...