Learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) face various challenges which impede their efforts to achieve proficiency, especially in speaking performance. In response, this study sets out use the Flipped Classroom Model (FCM) teaching method investigate effective-ness FCM on EFL learners’ anxiety A mixed-methods research design was utilized whereby 27 Omani under-graduate students majoring ...

Background: application of an American early language test in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking subjects. Aim: to compare the performance of normal Brazilian Portuguese and American English-speaking subjects on the Test of Early Language Development Third Edition (TELD-3). Method: participants of this study were 120 subjects of both genders, ranging in age from 2:00 to 7:11 years (20 subjects in ea...

It is widely believed that agrammatic aphasics have lost the ability to assign complete syntactic representations. This view stems from indications that agrammatics often fail to comprehend complex syntactic structures, as for example, some types of relative clauses. The present study presents an alternative account. Comprehension by Serbo-Croatian-speaking agrammatic aphasics was tested on fou...

The design and implementation of a flexible LDPC decoder able to cope with different codes, is gathering an increasing interest in the scientific community. Roughly speaking, a flexible decoder exhibits the remarkable ability of being able to decode different codes resorting to the same hardware. In this paper we present a novel decoder architecture specifically devised to present an high flexi...

UNLABELLED Few studies have related the common oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) impacts in children to perceived causes. OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence, extent and intensity of oral impacts in relation to perceived clinical conditions in primary school children in South Africa. METHODS Cross-sectional study of a random sample of children attending 26 schools. The Child Oral ...