In line with the recommendation that syntactic complexity-focused instruction should be provided to EFL learners at university level, present study modified traditional teaching content of English grammar in China into a syllabus. We examined translations by 52 first-year undergraduate students enrolled an Grammar course pre- and post-tests determine whether explicit syntactically complex struc...

Like the design of any instruction, designing the Web as an instructional tool must include certain Moreover, online learning must provide a framework for producing a Incorporating interactivity and multimedia into web-based instruction. Web-based instruction provides teachers with a means of meeting the social needs of A framework for designing interactivity into Web-based instruction. *Techno...

This study aimed at finding out the effect of two different methods of ESP instruction, namely, the traditional grammar translation method and an eclectic method on improving university students' reading comprehension ability. The main assumption was that compared to the Grammar-Translation which is probably not an efficient method, an eclectic method that focuses on improving reading comprehen...

By weakly ambiguous (finite) transducers we mean those transducers that, although being ambiguous, may be viewed to be at arm’s length from unambiguity. We define input-unambiguous (IU) and input-deterministic (ID) transducers, and transducers with finite codomain (FC). IU transductions are characterized by nondeterministic bimachines and ID transductions can be represented as a composition of ...

Abstract To probe the limits of attention raising through form-focused instruction, second-language research must adapt to needs a technologically driven learning environment. In this study, we used randomized control design investigate effect captioned media on vocabulary and grammar in L2 Spanish ( n = 369 learners). Through four data-collection sessions, participants were presented with gram...

Low-power media processors are important components in wireless multimedia cell phones, multimedia personal digital assistants, and other handheld multimedia devices. The ideal media processor implementation for these systems varies greatly based on cost, performance, and power requirements. This paper presents a design methodology for automatically generating synthesizable hardware description...

The Complex Streamed Instruction Set (CSI) architecture was proposed in order to overcome the limitations of existing multimedia-oriented ISA extensions, such as Intel’s MMX and SSE. One of the main limitations is the large amount of instructions which has to be executed. In CSI, instructions operate on data streams of arbitrarylength, which allows to dramatically reduce the instruction counts ...

M ultimedia workloads have always held an important role in embedded applications , such as video cards or set-top boxes, but these workloads are becoming increasingly common in general-purpose computing as well. Over the past three years the major vendors of general-purpose processors (GPPs) have announced extensions to their instruction set architectures that supposedly enhance the performanc...