Using Talking Chips Technique to Develop the Tenth Graders’ Speaking Skills at SMK PSKD 1

THE USE OF TALKING CHIPS TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING SPEAKING (Quasi Experimental Design at Tenth Grade in One of the Senior High Schools in Bandung)

This study investigated how the Talking Chips Technique can help students to improve their speaking. The sample of this study was only one class and total number of students was 36 students. This study used a quasi experimental design and three data collection, i.e. note taking, participant observation, and speaking test. The data from observation were analyzed by using thematic analysis and ba...

Talking to machines (statistically speaking)

Statistical methods have long been the dominant approach in speech recognition and probabilistic modelling in ASR is now a mature technology. The use of statistical methods in other areas of spoken dialogue is however more recent and rather less mature. This paper reviews spoken dialogue systems from a statistical modelling perspective. The complete system is first presented as a partially obse...

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction for Tenth Graders

one school was assigned at random to receive a special 20-session risk\x=req-\ reduction intervention and one school served as a control. At a two-month follow-up, risk factor knowledge scores were significantly greater for students in the treatment group. Compared with controls, a higher proportion of those in the treatment group who were not exercising regularly at baseline reported regular e...

Still talking to machines (cognitively speaking)

This overview article reviews the structure of a fully statistical spoken dialogue system (SDS), using as illustration, various systems and components built at Cambridge over the last few years. Most of the components in an SDS are essentially classifiers which can be trained using supervised learning. However, the dialogue management component must track the state of the dialogue and optimise ...

Developing Sixth Graders’ 1 Running head: DEVELOPING INQUIRY SKILLS TO CONSTRUCT EXPLANATIONS Developing Sixth Graders’ Inquiry Skills to Construct Explanations in Inquiry-based Learning Environments