Learning the new vocabulary of a new lesson by high school students before starting to teachthe whole of lesson in every session is the main concern of the writer of this study as anEnglish teacher. So the purpose of the present study is introducing some practical classroomtasks (such as, working with oxford dictionary for looking up the definitions, synonyms,antonyms and examples of new words,...

One solution to address the steadily growing complexity of embedded computer systems is the modeling at higher levels of abstraction using System-Level Description Languages (SLDL) such as SpecC or SystemC. However, writing such executable system models is error-prone and extremely time-consuming. Little has been done to support system designers in the tedious manual coding and re-coding tasks ...

Two major obstacles to using problem-based learning methods with writing in elementary school classrooms are the time it takes to design the learning environment and the time required for students to interact at their own pace with ill-structured problems used to spur student writing. This study examined whether game elements could be used along with Problem Based Learning (PBL) in a digital le...

This paper presents a new system for the continuous speech recognition of Spanish, integrating previous works in the fields of acoustic-phonetic decoding and language modelling. Acoustic and language models separately trained with speech and text samples, respectivelyare integrated into one single automaton, and their probabilities combined according to a standard beam search procedure. Two key...

The marked shift in writing instruction from a focus on writing as a set of separate, sequential tasks to a focus on writing as a holistic gestalt prompted the empirical study reported in this paper. We sought to determine whether any prerequisite relationships existed between five analytical components of ESL composition, namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. O...

Traditionally, people used to write by hand. Nowadays, people seldom write by hand, instead people write with computers. However, still there are many scopes to improve the writing environment because searching process is not seamlessly integrated with writing process. By regarding writing as a process of searching for words or expressions, it can be concluded that writing is, in a broad sense,...