... children inthe lowest reading group were relatively orally
proficient inEnglish (after two years of schooling in English) , but still couldn’t read well.
In summarizing the findings, the authors ... make sure that the words activated
in their minds fit with the meaning ofthe context. In addition, they must link
new information to what they have already read, as well as to their
background ... English- speaking students and may not
tap into the issues encountered by ELLs as they read in English. Such issues include
interference from the students’ first languageinthe areas of phonology or writing...
... 'How interesting', starting
at a low pitch and dropping their voice on the 'int' of 'interesting' I will be
fairly despondent since by their use of pitch and intonation they ... B:
PRACTICE
Teaching the productive skills
5.1 The nature of communication
5.2 The information gap
5
latest film?
All these factors influence language users in their choice of words. For
example, if the setting ... who is in a position to select the
textbook which their students are going to use.
The Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching deals specifically with
the teaching ofEnglish as a Foreign Language...
... printout are the scheme's main
features.
One ofthe most discussed problems inthe automatic
translation of Russian documents into English is the
insertion ofEnglish articles inthe output. ... question is meaningful only
in terms ofthe incrementing of consumer appeal ofthe
product, and it would be difficult to answer without
research in that very area. From the point of view of
an MT ... criteria in
the determination ofEnglish articles to the exclusion of
all other considerations, or use a combined syntactico-
statistical method; the aim of all such routines is the
selection of...
... ADAPTING THE DIALOGUE TO THEIR LIVES.
(Using prompts)
Explain to the students that they are going to do the dialogue again in pairs, using their own
information. This time the teacher is going ... you have:
CDSP/CQ inEnglish CDSP BA in Russian + CDSP/TC inEnglish
CDSP/TC inEnglish DHSP BA in Russian + CDSP/TC inEnglish
DHSP/CQ inEnglish DHSP/TC inEnglish
Other (specify): ... with the next finger.
Squeeze the two fingers together to show the contraction (e.g. “I’ve“).
[b] missing word
e.g. “I’ve got a bike.”
Point to the finger which represents the missing word in the...
... 2: An Investigation into the Current Performance ofEnglish Teaching and
Learning in Junior High Schools in Quang Ngai Province 7
2.1. Introduction 7
2.2. The Junior High School Community in Quang ... Improve the Teaching of Oral Skills for Junior High
School Teachers in Quang Ngai Province 14
3.1. Techniques for teaching speaking 14
3.1.1. Introduction 14
3.1.2. Controlled speaking activities ... speaking activities 21
3.1.4. Summary 24
ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements iv
List of abbreviations v
Part 1: Introduction
1. Rationale ofthe study 1
2. Aims ofthe study 2
3. Methods of...
... neither English nor French is spoken receive most
of their schooling inEnglish or French, depending on the
area ofthe country in which they live. Because the major-
ity of provinces in Canada offer ... 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 the
basic ... Columbia
The purpose of this article is to review published studies oftheEnglish literacy of children in
Canada who are Englishlanguage learners (ELLs) with the goal of understanding the read-
ing...
... knowledge ofthe field and professionals, stating that
the loan-word best conveys the meaning ofthe new concept and the use of loan words
sounds smarter and high-class.
Interestingly, inthe translation ... grammatical
category which the SL lacks. Likewise, the change inthe information content
of the message may be inthe form of omitting information specified inthe
source text. If the TL lacks a grammatical ... specified. In
other words, the person or thing affected by an action, which would be the object ofthe
verb inthe active form in an active structure, becomes the subject ofthe verb inthe
passive...
...
disambiguated word meaning.
It is thein interaction ofthe results of
these asynchronous processes that the process of
comprehension is defined.
The processes are independent ofthe know-
ledge ... affected.
The study includes off-line picture naming
which forces use of articles in all ofthe above
contexts, as well as on-line production of these
morphemes in an attempt to determine in which ...
Because ofthe parallel activation of all
meanings of each recognized word in HOPE, the
determination ofthe phonetic representation of a
recognized word determines the breadth of active...
...
consider the wellbeing of not only themselves but also of other members ofthe household”. These
assertion was corroborated by the findings in Table 1.
Table 1 also reveals that there are 20.8% of ... make up Yewa area of Ogun state ,Nigeria. The
Yorubas are the major inhabitants. Farming and trading are the predominant occupations similar to the
occupations of about 52% ofthe Nigerian population ... eradicate the problems posed by these
industries located near them. Members ofthe community should community watch dog
directly monitoring the activities of these industries in their locality...
... some
preliminary results of an investigation in
course on the typology ofthe morphol-
ogy ofthe native South American lan-
guages from the point of view ofthe for-
mal language theory. With ... process
using finite automata again we must enlarge the
lexicon size. The resulting grammar, althought
capable of modeling the morphology ofthe toba,
would not work effectively. The effectiveness
of ... and prefixes. Inthe next example the suffix-
ation ofthe reflexive (−l
at) forces the use of the
active person with prefixes ofthe voice medium
class because the agent is affected by the action.
Example...
... and the entropy of a single feature:
G(D, f) = H(D) − H(D
f
)
The information gain G(D, f) is the reduction in
uncertainty in D we expect to achieve by learning
the value ofthe feature f. In other ... H(D
f=v
i
) is the entropy of subset ofthe in-
stance base which has value v
i
for feature f. The
information gain of a feature then is simply the
difference between the total entropy ofthe in-
stance ... data more
often then the pair b, a, then a ≺ b. If the re-
verse is true, and b, a is found more often than
a, b, then b ≺ a. If neither order appears in the
training data, then neither a...