learning to read english for adults

... predictor of later English reading skills, but not in Chinese Knowledge of general information and verbal memory is a good predictor of ability to read Chinese and Japanese Differences appear to ... analyze words into their components (letters or radicals) Learning to Read Chinese (Van and Zian, 1962) Starts with learning to read characters Three stages Relate sound/meaning to global shape ... but tones represented in spelling Learning to Read a Non- alphabetic Script - Chinese Or: “I have to learn how many characters?” Character Construction: 6 Methods Pictographs Pictographs...

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... Efficiency of a reading -English- for- Biology lesson with IT For the number of learning- English years, more students (18) with more learning experience (6-11 years) found a reading -English- for- Biology ... influences foreign language teaching and learning (generally) and reading English for Biology teaching and learning (particularly) and the extent to which IT can assist reading English for Biology ... (58%) had 6 to 11 years of learning English; 42% of the students had 2 to 5 years of learning English. Most of them had learnt English before they entered HNUE. That is a big advantage for teaching...

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... motivational orientations: (a) reason for learning, (b) desire to attain the learning goal, (c) positive attitude toward the learning situation, and (d) effortful behavior. Many theorists and ... interrelated to motivation, must be sustained for successful transfer of language learning (Finocchiaro, 1982; Ngeow, 1998). To foster positive attitudes and to motivate learning, in particular, the learning ... non-specialists, is the attempt to sustain genuine interest in continuing to learn English and to use the English language once the examinations are over. Teachers have to create a healthy balance...

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... expected to improve their reading speed with nonfictional English texts and to learn how to process the information in those texts more effectively. Student Levels: The exercises are appropriate for ... "looking for text-type typical syntactic schemes", etc How to Read Nonfictional English Texts Faster and More Effectively A 'Standard Reading Exercise' for ESL-Students ... text to be about? Is it likely that in close reading this text will meet my reading purpose and suit my information needs? etc. Questions like these are relevant for an economical approach to...

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... well is to read many ESP related documents. The more they read, the better your ESP knowledge is. Moreover, according to DKC05 (2009), learning General English well does not mean that learning ... the general English. In his opinion, learning general English well is only the foundation for learning ESP well. In other word, people who want to learn ESP subjects well have to spend a lot ... their teachers ask them to do. -Students are expected to find materials related to each lesson’s topic to support the lesson During the lesson - Students are expected to take full and active...

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... in CL, learners work together to accomplish a shared goal. Therefore, they are motivated to work together for mutual benefit in order to meet their own and each other’ learning. Additionally, ... and intonation: Learners of English often find it difficult to pronounce English words, to stress the right syllables, to follow the stress-timed rhythm and intonation patterns of spoken English. ... students seem to keep silent all the time. Some strategies have been carried out such as talking to them to find their problems, choosing interesting topics, monitoring frequently to help and...

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... only way to get that sort of involvement is to be in crisis or to create an emergency of some sort. To ignore such a desper- ate cry for help simply because we believe it’s an attempt to get attention ... step toward offering these kids what their souls were created to long for. If we really want to provide this generation of young people with the kind of hope they need, we’ll have to work together ... need to start. We’ll take the time to explore what self-injury is…and what it’s not. We’ll discover why kids turn to self-harm and the reasons they give for being unable (or unwilling) to stop....

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... 4 Evaluation Framework Estimating recall for bootstrapped relation learning is a challenge except for corpora small enough for complete annotation to be feasible, e.g., the ACE corpora. ACE ... potential named argument for this relation, the other is a date. 12 *Coref was added after reading paper reviews, so there was not time to do annotation for a precision evaluation for it. than 50% ... are typically used to introduce top officials. For such cases, even without co-reference, system specific effort and tuning could potentially have improved –Coref’s ability to learn the relations....

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... memory-based learning to perform various graph transformations. One of the transformations is node relabelling, which adds function tags to parser output. They report an f- score of 88.5% for the ... (Daelemans et al., 2004) for Memory- Based Learning, the MaxEnt Toolkit (Le, 2004) for Maximum Entropy and LIBSVM (Chang and Lin, 2001) for Support Vector Machines. For TiMBL we used k nearest ... Parsing For constituency parsing we use Bikel’s (2002) parser for which we developed a Spanish language package adapted to the Cast3LB data. Prior to parsing, we perform one of the tree transforma- tions...

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... 117–120, Prague, June 2007. c 2007 Association for Computational Linguistics Learning to Rank Definitions to Generate Quizzes for Interactive Information Presentation Ryuichiro Higashinaka and ... categories related to government or creation lead to easy hints, whereas semantic cate gories, such as birth and oth- ers (corresponding to the person in ‘a person from Tokyo’), lead to early hints. ... biographi- cal facts) to automatically generate “Who is this?” quizzes. The definitions are or- dered according to how difficult they make it to name the person. Such ranking would enable users to interactively...

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