... 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 ... 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...
... 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 ... is an important factor in explaining the poorer performance in readingcomprehension of L2 readers. Sixty-one fourth graders in English- only instruction sincekindergarten participated. There...
... 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. ... 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 ... same as with any kind of writing when employed in group writing, their strengths are much intensified thanks to the participation of more individuals in contributing ideas. In additions, to...
... Classification in terms of their semantic functions According to the survey, and basing on ten kinds ofEnglish adjectives as mentioned above, the writer would like to find out what kinds ofEnglish ... used in the progressive tense. He is being stupid again. In short, syntactic functionsofEnglish adjectives are ordered clearly as in the following table:Kinds of adjectiveSemantic functions ... role in learning a foreign language as a main subject at most language universals.According to C. James (1980;19), C.A is a form of inter -language study and a central concern of applied linguistic....
... structure of ThePractice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching remains essentially the same. In Part A: Background Issues, we look at some of the theoretical concernswhich influence the teaching ofEnglish ... nationality.Intonation is a big indicator of involvement as well. If I tell whatI think is a fascinating story and my listener says 'How interesting', startingat a low pitch and dropping ... open that window?' and so on. In deciding what language to teach when working with functions weneed to bear in mind the level of difficulty, the level of transparency(is the meaning clear)...
... 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 ... 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 ... 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...
... 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 ... structure- consistent and label-consistent. The span of a consitituent is the string of words which it dominates, denoted by a pair of indices (i, j) where i is the index of the leftmost ... computer manuals. 1. Introduction Many language understanding systems and machine translation systems rely on a parser ofEnglish as the first step in processing an input sentence. The general...
... 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, both in body ... 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; ... 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...
... 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 ... ey were often “on call” for the variety of needs ofEnglish were often “on call” for the variety of needs ofEnglish were often “on call” for the variety of needs ofEnglish were often “on ... 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...
... 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 ... distressingly vague and little more can be got from it than the fact that they are thinking in terms of eight noun classes, not five.1 The intuitively satisfying homogeneity of the con- tents of...
... Okajima et al. [17] of the role of the O-fucosylation activity of ofut1 during wing imaginal discdevelopment led to identical conclusions. Although the loss of ofut1 activity in clones leads to ... and knockdown of Ofut1 using double-stranded RNA in cultured cells inhibits the secretion of asoluble version of the Notch extracellular domain (NECD)[15,16]. This activity of Ofut1 does not ... addition,Ofut1 and Ofut1R275Aboth bind the NECD, and expression of Ofut1R275A in cultured cells can increase both the amountand the ligand-binding activity of secreted NECD [16].Consistent with this...
... 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 ... evaluation of researchers for tenure and promotion and the awarding of grants [1]. The latter often hinges not only on the number of publications and the quality of the research but also theIncrease in...