Considering the significance of corrective feedback to improve language learners’ speaking performance, current study aimed examine impact direct oral on accuracy and motivation speak Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 46 learners who were preparing themselves for IELTS exam, both male female, invited participate in study. Having homogenized participants through Oxford Placement Test, researche...

Adult non-native perception is subject to influence from a variety of factors, including native language and musical experience. The present study investigates the influence of these two factors in the perception and learning of non-native lexical tones. Native Thai-speaking musicians and nonmusicians completed preand post-test identification tasks on five Cantonese tones, with 4 days of lexica...

It is a difficult problem to recognize baseball live speech because the speech is rather fast, noisy and disfluent due to rephrasing, repetition, mistake and grammatical deviation caused by spontaneous speaking style. To solve these problems, we propose in this paper a speech recognition method of incorporating the baseball game knowledge such as counting of inning, out, strike and ball. Due to...

Group-work dynamics has been assumed to explain a great part of impact in language learningand teaching in specific contexts or for particular skills. In the same vein, structural accuracy hasbeen significant in foreign language learning. Today, foreign language learning is not limited tothe classroom environment. In addition, it encompasses the learner’s lives, so that selfregulation’srole see...

Invariant numerical schemes possess properties that may overcome the numerical properties of most of classical schemes. When they are constructed with moving frames, invariant schemes can present more stability and accuracy. The cornerstone is to select relevant moving frames. We present a new algorithmic process to do this. The construction of invariant schemes consists in parametrizing the sc...

and Applied Analysis 3 on the whole space H, is a bounded operator. Here, I is the identity operator. The following operators D ( I τA τA 2 2 ) , G ( I − τ 2A 2 ) , P ( I τ 2 A ) , R I τB −1, Tτ ( I B−1A ( I τA τ 2 P−2 ) K ( I − R2N−1 ) GKP−2R2N−1 −GKP−2 2I τB R [ n ∑ i 1 αi ( I ( λi − [ λi τ ] τ ) A ) D − λi/τ u0 ])−1

For optical waveguides with high index-contrast and sharp corners, existing full-vectorial mode solvers including those based on boundary integral equations typically have only second or third order of accuracy. In this paper, a new full-vectorial waveguide mode solver is developed based on a new formulation of boundary integral equations and the so-called Neumann-to-Dirichlet operators for sub...

We have so far proposed a speaking-aid system for laryngectomees using a statistical voice conversion technique. In the proposed system, artificial speech articulated with extremely small sound source signals is detected with a Non-Audible Murmur (NAM)microphone, and then, the detected artificial speech is converted into more natural voice in a probabilistic manner. Although this system basical...