This paper presents an unimodal dialogue system to query academic information in the University framework. Our main contribution is the implementation of a system module to create automatically the JSGF grammars that are used for automatic speech recognition. The vocabulary to include in the grammars is unknown a priori, and is specified by means of an easy-to-use web interface. Such a vocabula...

This study investigated the relationship between two components of reading ability (ie reading comprehension and reading vocabulary) and six dimensions of self-perception (ie perceived scholastic competence, perceived intellectual ability, perceived creativity, perceived job competence, perceived social acceptance, and perceived global self-worth) as factors impacting academic performance. The ...

This approach deals with developing logical/creative/critical thinking and problem-solving skills by means of clearly explaining grammar rules and by providing patterns and examples for organising effective dialogues or presentations in the foreign language, leading students towards free, meaningful communication. Enriching engineering students’ English vocabulary firstly focuses on the special...

The primary purpose of this study was to assess the effects of contextuallybased multiple meaning (i.e., words with multiple meanings) vocabulary instruction on the vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension of students. Third and 5th grade students received either contextuallybased multiple meaning vocabulary instruction embedded in the standard language arts instruction offered to all stu...

Data from the Head Start Impact Study (N=3,185) were used to determine whether Head Start differentially benefited children from homes with high, middle, and low levels of parental preacademic stimulation on three academic outcome domains – early literacy, receptive vocabulary, and early math – after one year. Results from residualized growth models showed positive impacts of random assignment ...

The present corpus-based lexical study reports the development of a Pharmacy Academic Word List (PAWL); a list of the most frequent words from a corpus of 3,458,445 tokens made up of 800 most recent pharmacy texts including research articles, review articles, and short communications in four sub-disciplines of pharmacy. WordSmith (Scott, 2017) and AntWordProfiler (Anthony, 2014) were used to sc...

This paper introduces GalaxyScope, a novel system to distinguish different interpretations of “truth” for different virtual tribes. It extracts the tribes from Wikipedia through analyzing its categories “Ideologies”, “Lifestyles”, and “Culture”, leading to tribes such as “capitalism”, “socialism”, and “liberalism”. It then calculates the most influential “tribe leaders” through their associatio...

Children’s preparedness for school is an important predictor of their eventual academic attainment, health, and personal success well into adulthood. Although kindergarten knowledge of numbers and vocabulary represent robust indicators of children’s readiness to learn at school entry, theory and research suggest that selfdirected learning skills are also important in meeting the challenges of t...