Young children with learning disabilities typically encounter difficulty with academic tasks requiring intentional effort and effective use of metacognitive skills--qualities that competent readers and writers possess. In response to these difficulties, special educators often modify literacy instruction, isolating the "basic skills" of literacy (such as decoding and penmanship) from meaningful...

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as the method of choice for solving a wide range of machine learning tasks. Satiating the enormous growth in computational demand posed by DNNs is a key challenge for computing system designers and has most commonly been addressed through the design of custom accelerators. However, these specialized accelerators that utilize large quantities of multiply-...

This study examined the development of global intelligibility in one’s spontaneous workplace spoken ESL response to form-focused instruction (FFI) through analyses comments from both learner and tutor subjective listeners’ impressionistic judgments. The feedback individuals who worked with Malcolm showed perceived improvement Malcolm’s intelligibility, while no statistically significant change ...

This paper reports on a study investigating children’s attitudes towards dictogloss, a type of focus on form task designed to facilitate learners’ understanding of the target form in a meaning-focused context. The compatibility of this language teaching procedure with interests and motivation of learners, in effect, provides a learner perspective of the effectiveness and usefulness of the task....