The aim of this research is to know the implementation Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) in improving students’ reading comprehension analytical exposition text and find out whether there a significant difference between students who were taught by using CORI those not. This used quantitative approach with experimental which was conducted at an Islamic High School Kemuja, Bangka Belit...

Starting with a novel audio analysis and editing paradigm, a set of new and adaptive audio analysis and editing algorithms in the spectrogram are developed and integrated into a smart visual audio editing tool in a “what you see is what you hear” style. At the core of our algorithms and methods is a very flexible audio spectrogram that goes beyond FFT and Wavelets and supports manipulating a si...

Past research has shown that the use of multimedia, such as pictures, audio narration, and video, can be beneficial in computer aided instruction. We propose that spoken words generated by speech synthesis can be used to reinforce written text during L2 language instruction, and can lead to a more robust learning experience than providing written language input alone. Two in-vivo studies were c...

Blind individuals show impairments for auditory spatial skills that require complex spatial representation of the environment. We suggest that this is partially due to the egocentric frame of reference used by blind individuals. Here we investigate the possibility of reducing the mentioned auditory spatial impairments with an audio-motor training. Our hypothesis is that the association between ...

Ispel is a visual programming environment for object-oriented languages providing multiple views of programs, utilising both graphics and text. These views can be used not only for program browsing, but can also be manipulated to visually program with an object-oriented language.

In this paper we evaluate how speaker familiarity influences the engagement times and performance of blind school children when playing audio games made with different synthetic voices. We developed synthetic voices of school children, their teachers and of speakers that were unfamiliar to them and used each of these voices to create variants of two audio games: a memory game and a labyrinth ga...

Visually impaired users often have to get familiar with numerous audio signals, which help them to navigate in space. The learning process is often time consuming and requires a human guide (or assistant) while moving through (testing) space. Orientation and mobility training can also expose individuals to significant hazards due to the unpredictable physical variables present in real-world nav...

Este artículo expone los principios fundamentales del enfoque orientado a la acción proyecto TRADILEX (Traducción Audiovisual en el Aprendizaje de Lenguas Extranjeras) que financia Ministerio Educación, Ciencia e Innovación España y reúne investigadores doce universidades europeas británicas. El objetivo es reunir datos necesarios para estudiar mejora las habilidades lingüísticas con uso subtit...

While Machine Comprehension (MC) has attracted extensive research interests in recent years, existing approaches mainly belong to the category of Reading task which mines textual inputs (paragraphs and questions) predict answers (choices or text spans). However, there are a lot MC tasks that accept audio input addition input, e.g. English listening comprehension test. In this paper, we target p...