Although the question of equal rights for members of the female sex was raised during the founding of the New England colonies (as, for example, when Anne Hutchinson challenged the Puritan theocracy of Boston), such equality has yet to be fully reached in America in fact (or in law) in 1977. The 1970s witnessed a growing agitation for “women’s rights” and, with the enactment of Title IX of the ...

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...

There are many historical manuscripts written in a single hand which it would be useful to index. Examples include the early Presidential papers at the Library of Congress and the collected works of W. B. DuBois at the library of the University of Massachusetts. The standard technique for indexing documents is to scan them in, convert them to machine readable form (ASCII) using Optical Characte...