<p>Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) is popular worldwide. One related issue under discussion how to effectively harness mobile devices help English writers. This paper first unpacks writing as a meaning making process from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics. It then summarizes major MALL-based studies on instruction, including affordances and challenges instruction...

Instruction schedulers for superscalar and VLIW processors must expose suucient instruction-level parallelism to the hardware in order to achieve high performance. Traditional compiler instruction scheduling techniques typically take into account the constraints imposed by all execution scenarios in the program. However, there are additional opportunities to increase instruction-level paralleli...

ABSTRACT The author cites the arrival of the information age and considers its implications for special education. He suggests that special educators must build their information management skills. Four specific applications of microcomputers in special education are addressed: tool applications (in which students use mic,-ocomputer technology as personal assistive devices), computer astisted i...

The purposes of this study are: (1) to investigate students’ perceptions of computer-assisted whole language instruction; (2) to examine the effectiveness of whole language instruction on students’ reading improvement; and (3) to determine the difference between basic-level and advanced-level students’ improvement in reading skills. A total of 212 freshmen (98 low level and 114 high level stude...

Discovery learning approaches to education have recently come under scrutiny (Tobias & Duffy, 2009), with many studies indicating limitations to discovery learning practices. Therefore, 2 meta-analyses were conducted using a sample of 164 studies: The 1st examined the effects of unassisted discovery learning versus explicit instruction, and the 2nd examined the effects of enhanced and/or assist...