This study investigates the effect of imaginative instruction strategy on developing speaking skills among female tenth-grade students. The sample consisted (53) students selected by convenience sampling method from a public school in Jarash directorate education. is assigned randomly into two groups: an experimental group (27) students, studied through innovative strategy, and control (26) whi...

In teaching and learning process of English, the teacher should manage both students temperament language strategies since those have contribution to students’ achievements along with purposes education. The objectives this research are (1) investigate is there any correlation between characteristics speaking skill; (2) strategy inventory for (3) skill. This was employed by quantitative approac...

In this paper we present a natural language interface that allows for easy and intuitive access to tourism information. In particular, we describe the knowledge representation model underlying the information retrieval system based on associative networks and that allows the definition of semantic relationships between domain-intrinsic information items. The network structure is used to define ...

The present study was an attempt to refine a qualitatively proposed model of ELT discipline-specific reading strategies to provide a better interpretation of qualitative findings. Hence, in line with the components of the previous model, that is, 6 factors and 32 categories, a 6-hypothetical factor and a 33-item questionnaire were considered in the design of the ELT discipline-specific question...

We use panel data to analyze the determinants of speaking  uency and wages of immigrants. Our model takes account of two problems that may bias OLS estimates of the impact of speaking  uency on earnings. First, subjective variables on an ordinal discrete scale, such as self-reported language ability, can suffer from misclassiŽ cation errors. The model decomposes misclassiŽ cation errors into ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the role of linguistic and intelligence factors in the iranian ielts candidates’ speaking performance. linguistic factors include depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge as well as grammar knowledge. narrative and verbal intelligences represent the non-linguistic factors. the participants included 329 learners who took 5 validated tests and also partic...

During behavioral model verification, it is important to determine the stopping point for the current test strategy and for moving to a different test strategy. It has been shown that the location of the stopping point is highly dependent on the statistical model one should choose to describe the coverage behavior during the verification process. This paper presents a study on the coverage beha...

Deformation field morphometry was applied to magnetic resonance images to detect differences in brain shape between English-speaking Caucasians and Chinese-speaking Asians. Anatomical differences between these two groups were limited to gyri in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes, which are known (through functional imaging studies) to differentiate Chinese speakers from English speakers. ...