In this study, we designed and developed two educational games on mobile phones with support for speech-recognition to examine and train the cognitive underpinnings of word reading in English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in rural India. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that articulating a word aloud will be more advantageous for strengthening the sublexical components required for ...

This paper has developed an online personalized English learning recommender system capable of providing ESL students with reading lessons that suit their different interests and therefore increase the motivation to learn. The system, using content-based analysis, collaborative filtering, and data mining techniques, analyzes real students’ reading data and generates recommender scores, based on...

In the past two decades, writing scholars [1-3] have tried to make sense of the functions and forms of metadiscourse in writing. In doing so, each of these scholars have designed varied metadiscourse frameworks that illustrate the different categories, functions and linguistic realizations so as to capture the use of metadiscourse more succinctly. The intention of this study is to review existi...

&ELECTRONICSYSTEM-LEVEL (ESL)design is one of the newer three-letter acronyms (TLAs) in the design and EDA fields. Like its back-end cousin, design for manufacturability (DFM), ESL’s role in the design process is, and will likely remain, controversial. The definition of ESL is not widely agreed upon: What constitutes ESL is open for much debate, and many tool vendors seem to argue that ESL tool...

1 Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI) Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, Italy. E-mail: {rana, santambr, sciuto}@elet.polimi.it 2 Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), ESL-IEL-STI-EPFL, Station 11, 1015-Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Depto. de Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática (DACYA) Un...

In this paper, natural frequencies of square laminated composite plates for different supports at edges are presented. Using a third order shear deformation theory of plates (TSDT), which is categorized in equivalent single layer theories (ESL), a new set of linear equations of motion for square multi-layered composite plates has been derived. Laminated plates are supposed to be either angleply...

We present a novel noisy channel model for correcting text produced by English as a second language (ESL) authors. We model the English word choices made by ESL authors as a random walk across an undirected bipartite dictionary graph composed of edges between English words and associated words in an author’s native language. We present two such models, using cascades of weighted finitestate tra...

Power distribution system noise affects computer product timing performance, signal integrity and electromagnetic interference. Between 1 MHz and 1 GHz, the primary means of reducing power distribution noise is with ceramic decoupling capacitors. To achieve a certain target impedance, it is important to characterize the ESR of ceramic decoupling capacitors as they directly determine the number ...

This paper presents ongoing work on the detection of preposition errors of non-native speakers of English. Since prepositions account for a substantial proportion of all grammatical errors by ESL (English as a Second Language) learners, developing an NLP application that can reliably detect these types of errors will provide an invaluable learning resource to ESL students. To address this probl...

This study reports on an experiment examining the impact of iconic graphics on participants’ understanding of domains represented by entity relationship diagrams. Cognitive load theory and the cognitive theory of multimedia learning are used to hypothesize that iconic graphics reduce the cognitive load of model viewers, leading to more complete mental models and consequently improved understand...