In the Netherlands, teaching programs for French as a foreign language in secondary school usually involve an explicit focus on grammar. This is partially motivated by early findings SLA research, which showed that instruction more effective acquisition (Norris, & Ortega, 2000; Spada, Tomita, 2010) and even considered essential to achieve accuracy advanced writing (Gunnarsson, 2012). The ai...

Abstract. Traditionally, transfer functions have been designed manually for each operation in a program, instruction by instruction. In such a setting, a transfer function describes the semantics of a single instruction, detailing how a given abstract input state is mapped to an abstract output state. The net effect of a sequence of instructions, a basic block, can then be calculated by composi...

The current research was an effort to study the interaction of gender with text enhancement and meta-cognitive grammar instruction on learning and recall of English grammar. To this end, two groups of students consisting of 51 learners from both genders were formed. The participants were 51 male and 51 female learners. The 51 participants of each gender were further divided into two groups. The...

This paper proposes a new face recognition approach by using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Hierarchical Radial Basis Function Network (HRBF) classification model. The DCT is employed to extract the input features to build a face recognition system, and the HRBF is used to identify the faces. Based on the pre-defined instruction/operator sets, a HRBF model can be created and evolved. T...

An architecture for a low-power asynchronous DSP has been developed, for the target application of GSM (digital cellphone) chipsets. A key part of this architecture is an instruction buffer which both provides storage for prefetched instructions and performs hardware looping. This requires low latency and a reasonably fast cycle time, but must also be designed for low power. A design is present...

Using natural language as a way for students to interact with an ITS has many advantages. However, creating the intelligence with which the tutor evaluates a student’s natural language input is challenging. We describe a system, ConceptGrid, that allows non-programmers to create the instruction for checking natural language input. Three tutor authors used the system to develop answer templates ...

background and purpose: active learning, combined with computer-assisted instruction, can enhance medical students’ performance and learning. this article is an attempt to introduce a new web-based approach to information technology instruction for medical students. methods: eight topics were selected to be instructed in web-based workshops. phpbb forum was used for web-based collaborative lear...