... chances for engineers and technical professionals to
convey technical information in Englishfor various purposes. Therefore, besides learning
general English as an international language, engineering ... good English writing proficiency
can be a contributing factor to their professional recognition and career prospect.
This paper proposes a pragmatic English writing program forengineeringstudents ... process of fixing a piece of DIY furniture
ã Describe the process of changing components of appliances or vehicles
ã Describe the process of operating the washing machine
ã Describe the process of...
... realisations of a language function are
better forstudents at lower levels whereas difficulty, lack of transparency
and extremes of formality (and informality) are more suitable for more
advanced students. ... Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching deals specifically with
the teaching ofEnglish as a Foreign Language (EFL). It is not focused
especially on English as a Second Language (ESL) although much of ... ways of training students to
recognise discourse structure (see 10.4.6 and 10.5.6).
As we saw in 2.5, competent users of a language are proficient in a range
of language skills, though not all of...
... published studies of the English literacy of children in
Canada who are Englishlanguage learners (ELLs) with the goal of understanding the read-
ing development of ELLs and characteristics of reading ... experienced in one
language will be experienced in other languages.
LIPKA
, SIEGEL, AND VUKOVIC: LITERACY SKILLS OFENGLISHLANGUAGE LEARNERS 43
with measures ofEnglish rhyme detection and English
phoneme ... group ofstudents from diverse
language backgrounds. It would be valuable to investigate
the relation of syntactic awareness and reading for different
native language groups, as the relation of...
... values of
nd/V
should depend only on the corresponding value of
Vd/v,
regardless of the actual values of the original variables. This means that if, for
each observation, the values of
nd/V ... no relevance.
Preface
This volume is intended forstudentsofengineering on courses or programmes of
study to graduate level.
The sequence of subject development in this edition commences ...
Aerodynamics forEngineeringStudents
In the above problem the frequency of eddies,
n,
will depend primarily on:
(i) the size of the cylinder, represented by its diameter,
d
(ii) the speed of the...
... so that it is the forecast of (the log of) the actual exchange rate (and not its
change) that are compared.
Following Meese and Rogoff (1983), we perform an out -of- sample forecasting exercise ... Bjørnland and Håvard Hungnes
The importanceof interest rates
for forecasting the exchange rate
Abstract:
This study compares the forecasting performance of a structural exchange rate model ... performs better than the random walk at forecasting the exchange rate at all horizons. The pure
PPP model performs worst of all the three models at all horizons, and can therefore not outperform...
... Stress, accentual and tone languages.
ã Stress language: English is an example of a stress language. Stress
location is part of the lexical entry of each English word. For example,
"apple" ... review of Vietnamese
language and Vietnamese prosody.
2.1. Vietnamese language
2.1.1. Vietnamese characteristics
As we know, Vietnamese language is an amorphous language and a tonal/musical
language. ...
List of Figures
Figure 1-1: Category of methods for predicting syllable duration [6] 23
Figure 2-1: Example of the contours of six tones, as described in [21] 30
Figure 2-2: The shape of Tone...
... within the profile
of a normal aerofoil section, the centre of pressure moves with change of lift
coefficient and is not necessarily within the aerofoil profile. Figure 1.11 shows the
forces on ...
planform
of a wing is the shape of the wing seen on a plan view of the aircraft.
Figure
1.4
illustrates this and includes the names of symbols of the various para-
meters of the planform ... excess
of
atmospheric.
14
Aerodynamics
for
Engineering Students
It should be remembered that this result is obtained from the equation of state for
a perfect gas and the equation of conservation...
... Strzalkowski, T Evaluat-
ing Syntax Performance of Parser/Grammars of English.
Proceedings of Natural Language Processing Systems
Evaluation Workshop, Berkeley, California, 1991.
5. Hopcraft, J. E. ... (exactly, manually)
"was"
Imperative form of Verb (attempt, proceed)
-ing form of Verb (containing, powering)
Table 2: Sample of Lancaster part -of- speech labels
its "correct parse" ... corpus of Associated Press news wire. The sentences
were parsed by four of the major large-coverage parsers
for general English. 1 Each of the authors, working sep-
arately, scored 140 parses for...
... lower for wild-type enzyme than for
D74N and E202Q, allowing flexibility of the gorge for
entrance and binding of substrates or inhibitors and exit of
reaction products. The carboxylic groups of ... water molecules in the active site
gorges of TcAChE and HuAChE is evidence for the
importance of water in the structure of AChE. The structure
and number of water molecules in the gorge and bound ... mechanism of
the pressure denaturation process of rHuAChE, ANS
binding measurements were performed. ANS has been used
for probing hydrated hydrophobic surfaces in proteins [35]
and formation of molten...
... same series for
either GCSE EnglishLanguage or GCSE English Literature.
England
In England pre-16 candidates entered for GCSE EnglishLanguage must also be
entered for GCSE English Literature. ... through entering pre-16 candidates for both GCSE
English Language and GCSE English Literature. For the minority of candidates
entered only for GCSE English Language, centres should ensure their ... Discussion of the content of the Speaking and Listening element of the
course; methods of recording and of internal moderation.
GCSE ENGLISHLANGUAGE 42
â WJEC CBAC Ltd.
WJEC GCSE English...
... establishing a model of the ac-
quisition ofEnglish grammatical struc-
tures by users of our English language
tutoring system, which has been de-
signed for deaf users of American Sign
Language. We ... order of acqui-
sition.
2 Profiling Language Errors
We have established the need for a description of
the general progress ofEnglish acquisition as de-
termined by the mastery of grammatical forms.
... user language proficiency in a writing tu-
tor for deaf learners of English. In Mari Broman
Olsen, editor, Proceedings of Computer-Mediated
Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural
Language...
... 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 call” for the variety of ... assess the English
language profi ciency of all California’s Englishlanguage
language profi ciency of all California’s Englishlanguage
language profi ciency of all California’s Englishlanguage ...
achievement for their Englishlanguage learners. Teach-
achievement for their Englishlanguage learners. Teach-
achievement for their Englishlanguage learners. Teach-
achievement for their English language...