Abstract Contraction of want to wanna is sometimes possible (e.g., Who do you to/wanna stay with ___ ? ), but impossible to/*wanna stay? ). This contrast attributable the grammatical constraint that a wh -trace blocks contraction and . Most first language (L1) second (L2) acquisition studies testing learner knowledge this have used elicited production tasks focused on adult participants, incons...

What constitutes learning in the 21st century will be contested terrain as our society strives toward post-industrial forms of knowledge acquisition and production without having yet overcome the educational contradictions and failings of the industrial age. Educational reformers suggest that the advent of new technologies will radically transform what people learn, how they learn, and where th...

As most of us subconsciously feel, it is a great difficulty to create a program which could imitate human’s way of thinking. Recently the importance of the relation between expressions “feel”, “create” and “way of thinking” used in the previous sentence is being noticed, what gave birth to so called “affective computing”. During our experiments within GENTA project, we have observed useful conn...

51 Chapter 1 emphasized the importance of knowledge acquisition as a cornerstone of human development. This chapter focuses on building human capabilities for knowledge acquisition in Arab countries through education. The assessment of the state of education using such indicators as enrolment and illiteracy rates and per capita expenditure reveals tangible achievements but also significant area...

In addition to doing own research and development, firms typically are engaged in the acquisition of knowledge on the technology market. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we provide econometric evidence consistent with complementarity between these different innovation activities, i.e. the marginal return to one activity increases with the level of ...

This study tried to find out what factors underline the characteristics of acquisition of English language in EFL classrooms. To this end, the Characteristics of English Language Acquisition Scale (ELAS) consisting of 41 items was designed by the researchers of this study and administered to 388 pre University Iranian EFL students at various private and public schools in Neyshabour and Zebarkha...

This research showed that appropriate input and suitable contexts for interaction among students can lead to successful  second language acquisition (SLA). This study based on Swain's (2005) notion of collaborative dialogue, aimed to study whether EFL learners participating in negotiation of meaning based tasks collaborate with each other and, if so, to investigate the role of this behavior in ...

Background A quality improvement collaborative uses multiple approaches, including coaching, to teach the necessary skills to the change leader in an effort to teach them quality improvement skills and to enhance their knowledge acquisition in order to implement effective organizational changes. However, little is known about the individual teaching and learning styles of the coach or change le...

In this paper, we propose a concept of knowledge management “Knowledge Liquidization and Crystallization”, and a system “Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer” to support the process. “Exhibition designing” was chosen as an application of our methodology to a real work place in cooperation with a Japanese advertising company, as it is an example of the tasks that highly depend on implicit knowledge of ...

Judging from the conference programme, the days ahead of us promise to be stimulating and thought-provoking indeed. What I would like to do this morning is to share with you some of my thoughts on the evolution of knowledge acquisition and dissemination in an age which is increasingly mobile and in which technology and technical devices are everywhere, that is to say “ubiquitous”. They are beco...