Reading skills for weak learners

Effect of Multiple Intelligences-Based Reading Instruction on EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking Skills

Reading comprehension (RC) and critical thinking (CT) are the two basic cognitive skills that should be developed through involving language learners in a carefully planned instruction. Multiple intelligences (MI) instruction may assist learners in developing RC and CT in L2 education. This study probed the effect of MI-based reading instruction on the Iranian EFL learners’ RC and CT skills. In...

The impact of gender on using reading sub skills in Iranian EFL learners reading comprehension

The present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of gender on using reading subskills and reading comprehension skill of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, four subskills involved in the reading comprehension process were selected. Then some reading passages whose comprehension questions were believed to measure the intended subskill were chosen. Eighty-eight EFL adult upper-intermedi...

Reading Skills

Assessment of emerging reading skills in young native speakers and language learners

To automate assessments of beginning readers, especially those still learning English, we have investigated the types of knowledge sources that teachers use and have tried to incorporate them into an automated system. We describe a set of speech recognition and verification experiments and compare teacher scores with automatic scores in order to decide when a novel pronunciation is best viewed ...

On Weak Base Learners for Boosting Regression and Classiication on Weak Base Learners for Boosting Regression and Classiication

The most basic property of the boosting algorithm is its ability to reduce the training error, subject to the critical assumption that the base learners generate weak hypotheses that are better that random guessing. We exploit analogies between regression and classiication to give a characterization on what base learners generate weak hypotheses, by introducing a geometric concept called the an...