The main aim of this research was to investigate the perspectives of English language teachers and learners on the effect of test techniques on reading comprehension, test performance and assessment. The research has also aimed at finding the differences between teacher and learner perspectives, specifying the test techniques which have the highest effect, investigating the other factors affect...

Oral Reading for Language in Aphasia (ORLA) is a treatment technique in which the person with aphasia repeatedly reads aloud sentences and paragraphs, first in unison with the clinician, and then independently. Based on neuropsychological models of reading, ORLA was developed to improve reading comprehension in individuals with aphasia by providing practice in the phonological and semantic read...

This study examines the contribution of early phonological processing (PP) and language skills on later phonological awareness (PA) and morphological awareness (MA), as well as the links among PA, MA, and reading. Children 4–6 years of age with poor PP at the start of school showed weaker PA and MA 3 years later (age 7–9), regardless of their language skills. PA and phonological and morphologic...

The study aims to identify the types of metacognitive awareness as well as Multiple Intelligences with Taiwanese EFLs (English as Foreign Language) at medical junior colleges. In addition, metacognitive awareness and multiple intelligences were investigated to discover whether or not both factors affect students’ English reading performance, specifically in reading comprehension. A total of 454...

Learning difficulties in reading and arithmetic are among the most commonly noted in school-age learners, with around 5% seriously affected in each skill. Reading appears to involve a brain network that has little overlap with that for basic number processing, and the candidate genes for reading disability seem to be quite different from those for dyscalculia. Nevertheless, there is evidence th...

We investigate the issue of classifying short essays based their linguistic issues, for English at the high school levels. A good selection of appropriate essays is crucial for the language learners and for the reading comprehension tests, which is an important type of tests for language competence examinations. Although the text alone does not allow us to judge the difficulty of reading compre...

E. B. Christoffel, Gesammelte mathematische Abhandlungen, Unter Mitwirkung von A. KRAZER und G. FABER, herausgegeben von L. MAURER. Zwei Bande. B. G. Teubner, Leipzig, 1910. WHEN one turns over the pages of the collected works of a mathematician such as this one, arranged in chronological order, and notes the varied fields in which the author worked, he feels an impulse to follow the methods of...

Digital image processing and analysis can be an important tool for the restoration of works of art. This paper presents three applications of image processing in this field: a method for digital crack restoration of paintings, a technique for color restoration of old paintings and a method for mosaicing of partial images of works of art painted on curved surfaces. A digital archiving system for...

until 2000 it was believed that gonadotropin-releasing hormone (gnrh) was the sole regulator of hypophyseal gonadotropes. in 2000, the discovery of a gonadotropin inhibitory hormone (gnih) initiated a revolution in the field of reproductive physiology. identification of gnih homologues in mammals, the arginine-phenylalanine- amide (rfamide)-related peptides (rfrps), indicated a similar function...

the present research which falls in the field of comparative literature and is based on the french school aims to study and compare the social poetry of ahmad shamlou, a renowned contemporary iranian poet, and bertolt brescht, a german poet, writer and theorist's famous theater. the two poets looked at social issues through a human perspective and simple language which is reflected in thei...