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... L2 learning 38 3.4.1 LREs & FFEs 38 3.4.2 Focus-on-form episodes (FFEs) and L2 learning 39 3.4.3 LREs and L2 learning 41 3.4.3.1 LREs and L2 learning ... underlying the way they design and implement tasks, and student engagement in tasks and learning outcomes, an important relationship given the tandem nature of teaching and learning Given the meaning-focussed ... two key dimensions of task: task as learning goal and task as teaching /learning activity (also see Van den Branden, 2006a) 2.3.1 Task as learning goal Task as learning goal reflects different views...

Ngày tải lên: 03/03/2015, 09:58

... based on competence and the ability to understand and cope is quite another matter; it is appreciated by patients and colleagues alike Respect for others and an interest in and concern for their ... and separated from her husband coped with such amazing energy and effectiveness, despite 19 Opportunity and reality considerable financial hardship (and the help of a succession of competent and ... general and specialist postgraduate training Postgraduate training is physically, emotionally, and socially more demanding than the life of an undergraduate medical student on the one hand and of...

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Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:24

... 7.3 Starting and Stopping the System and Services Using Linux commands, you can start and stop the system or start and start services, such as the Apache web server 7.3.1 Starting and Stopping ... you can use the mount and unmount commands to explicitly mount and unmount filesystems, you can control the operation of swap partitions by using the swapoff and swapon commands If you want to ... commands that let you set the current system date and time and the system time zone 7.5.1 Setting the Current System Date and Time To display the current system time, enter the date command:...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 10:15

... adapt and apply to their own situations The 14 chapters are organized into four themes: Technology Management and Change, Collaborative Learning Through HCI, Teacher and Student Use of HCI, and ... of: Technology Management and Change, Collaborative Learning Through HCI, Teacher and Student Use of HCI, and HCI in Educational Practice Section I Technology Management and Change There can be ... principles of teaching and learning Chapter IX: APEC Cyber Academy: Integration of Pedagogical and HCI Principles in an International Networked Learning Environment: Taiwan and the U.S stand to provide...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:18

... student-centered learning environment structured by such objectives as peer teaching, autonomous learning principles, intellectually rich contentbased instruction, individualized learning, and, last ... appreciate the MOO’s potential impact on language learning, it is important to understand how it differs from chat rooms such as Internet relay chats ( IRCs) , or even more complex Web-based collaborative ... and, most importantly, “emote” ( that is, express feelings or “physical” actions through words) Second, MOOs provide a wide range of manipulable educational tools and allow users to create and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 23:20

... the need to balance accountability and support and the new demands this places on the learning organization and line management and we present innovative methods and technologies to ensure that ... both general managers and learning leaders, because maximizing return on investment from learning and development requires a true partnership between line management and learning leaders Wick.ffirs ... development and hands-on resource needs of training and human resource practitioners and gives them products to their jobs better We deliver proven ideas and solutions from experts in HR development and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/02/2014, 18:32

... bitexts, and one on two billion words of English These were smoothed using modified Kneser-Ney (Chen and Goodman, 1998) and stored using randomized data structures similar to those of Talbot and Brants ... source and target side, which reduces the number of eligible phrases Table shows an analysis of phrases extracted from human word-aligned and parsed data and automatically word-aligned and parsed ... similar to the expanded set recently used for Hiero (Chiang et al., 2009), but with bigram features (source and target word) instead of trigram features (source and target word and neighboring...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... generic addition and multiplication operation, ⊕ and ⊗, and their identities and Multiplication and addition must be associative Multiplication must distribute over addition, and v ⊗ The design ... 15 was used, and all decoders were configured to use cube pruning with a limit of 30 candidates at each node and no further pruning All decoders produced a BLEU score between 31.4 and 31.6 (small ... function, and sentence pairs are mapped over The reduce function aggregates the results and performs the optimization using standard algorithms, including LBFGS (Liu et al., 1989), RPROP (Riedmiller and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... masterfully edited two of my books His sure hand has greatly enhanced the books, and his comments have always helped to clarify and deepen the content and presentation of my books Last, I would ... evidence from the world’s laboratories and the outermost reaches of space, and new breakthroughs in theoretical physics It is my intention that it can be read and grasped without any previous introduction ... universes, of which ours is but one and discuss the possibility of wormholes, space and time warps, and how higher dimensions might connect them Superstring theory and M-theory have given us the first...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 21:20

... being released throughout 2008: „„ Blended Learning: The Convergence of Online and Face-To-Face Education „„ Using Online Learning for Credit Recovery and At-Risk Students „„ Oversight and Management ... particularly scalable and able to expand more easily than programs based entirely on brick -and- mortar classrooms ƒƒ Success stories and anecdotes regarding the benefits and value of online learning for ... Practices in Online Learning Online learning within K-12 education is increasing access and equity by making high quality courses and highly qualified teachers available to students Online learning programs...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... these two approaches on the 2005 and 2006 IWSLT development sets and shown that the techniques scale well to Hansard and UN corpora H Hassan, M Hearne, K Sima’an, and A Way 2006 Syntactic phrase-based ... the SFST model and the BOW Maxent model We used 1,000,000 training sentence pairs and tested on 994 test sentences for the UN corpus For the Hansard corpus we used the same training and test split ... (56.5/63.4) Discussion The BOW approach is promising as it performs reasonably well despite considerable losses in the transfer of information between source and target language The first and most...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... Memory-based learning Memory-based learning (MBL), also known as instance-based, example-based, or lazy learning (Stanfill and Waltz, 1986; Aha et al., 1991), is a supervised inductive learning algorithm ... 4: Precision, recall, and F-scores on accent and break prediction for our held-out corpus and two external corpora of news and email texts, using the best settings for CART and MBL as determined ... Foundations for Research in the Netherlands (NWO) and Belgium (FWO) References D W Aha, D Kibler, and M Albert 1991 Instance-based learning algorithms Machine Learning, 6:37–66 A.W Black 1995 Comparison...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... extraction techniques to collect entities and descriptions from a corpus and analyzed their lexical and semantic properties We have processed 178 MB of newswire and analyzed the use of descriptions ... descriptions Applications and Future Work We should note that P R O F I L E is part of a large system for information retrieval and summarization of news through information extraction and symbolic text ... which will be accessible both by users through a Web interface and by NLP systems through a client-server API Conclusion In this paper, we showed that context and other linguistic indicators correlate...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... organizational learning through team learning is best described in Argyris and Schon’s (1978) concept of single-loop and double-loop ¨ learning Single-loop learning pertains to the detection and correction ... acquiring and transferring knowledge and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights’) We distinguish between three levels of learning: individual learning, team and group learning, ... memory and knowledge Post-project reviews focus on the link between team and organizational learning, and – as we will discuss below – on the link between individual and organizational learning...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... Salim, and Ajith Abraham, “Understanding Plagiarism Linguistic Patterns, Textual Features and Detection Methods “ in IEEE Transactions on systems , man and cyberneticsPart C: Applications and reviews, ... sentences S1 and S2 respectively and n is the number of matched words between the n2− n sentences S1 and S2 Let μ = be the normalized term, which is the maximum possible distance between S1 and S2, ... taken as semantics of a document We use LDA to obtain the topic distribution of a query and a candidate snippet, and compare the cosine similarity of them as a measure of their semantic similarity...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

... mechanisms link defence and security • develop and communities and to capturetoshared requirements; and customer and supplier working and joint management of capabilities and • ensure greater joint ... investment in technology and development work and manufacturing infrastructure, thereby reducing costs and overheads and making its products and services more competitive for UK and overseas customers ... software, and connectivity specifications and standards are publicly available Electronics companies and software houses world-wide are therefore able to develop and market components, programmes, and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... English grammar, and fatherhood He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Sara, and his two children, Benjamin and Lucia I wish to thank my wife, Sara, for her steadfast love and support during ... Learning jQuery Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques Jonathan Chaffer Karl Swedberg BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Learning jQuery Better Interaction Design and ... plug-ins and how to use them, and proceed to develop your own from the ground up Appendix A provides a handful of informative websites on a wide range of topics related to jQuery, JavaScript, and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 22:21

... phrase, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, and other) Users can collapse and expand the brackets to keep the workspace uncluttered as they work through the Chinese sentence This also indicates ... Hockenmaier, Pauline Hwa, and Dorothea Wei for their help with the experiment We are also grateful to Chris CallisonBurch for discussions about collaborative translations and to Adam Lopez and the anonymous ... then shown a set of candidate translations (the original MT output, an alternative translation by a bilingual speaker, and corrected translations by the participants) in a randomized order Since...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20

... authors, learners, and systems about a learning object This rich set of data is critical when using applications and databases throughout the learning object creation and delivery process Learning objects ... tools, processes, and audience demands Introduction Figure I.1 The RLO-Specific ISD Model Analyze Design and mine Develop, repurpose, and reuse Deliver and access Evaluate Maintain and retire Introduction ... content and instructional practice activities Any learning object can be ‘tested’ through assessments that measure the learning or performance objective and are either positioned with the learning...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:28