The paper explores the accuracy of feedback provided to non-native learners English by a pronunciation module included in Microsoft Reading Progress. We compared assessment offered Progress against two university teachers. Recordings from students who aim for native-like were assessed independently and human raters. output was standardized as negative binary assigned orthographic words, which m...

Bird, Surgn.-Capt R., Resdt. Surgn., Medl. Coll. Hosptl., in modification of previous notification, to act as Professor of Anatomy, Medl. Coll., and 2nd Surgeon, Medl. Coll. Hosptl., Calcutta, during the absence, on leave, of Surgn.? Maj. R. H. Charles, or until further orders. Drury, Surgn.-Capt. F. J., Offg. Civil Surgn , 24-Parganas, to act as Professor of Midwifery, Medl. Coll., Calcutta, i...

In the present study, three groups of interpreter trainees were formed, two experimental groups, i.e., blended prosody instruction (BPI) and computer-assisted training (CAPT), one control group (CON). this experiment participants took part in a four-week teaching program for 16 sessions (60 minutes per session), hours all. The native Persian speakers who studied English interpreting at BA level...

The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) is a voluntary organisation, a charity, established in 1981 by paediatricians to investigate the causes and prevention of accidents. The President of the CAPT is its founder, Dr Hugh Jackson, who remains active and in the vanguard of new ideas on prevention. Jane Asher, the Vice President, is not only a well known actress, but also a published expert o...

This paper presents a limited case study examining the causal inference of student mobility on standardized test performance, within one middle-class high school in suburban Connecticut. Administrative data were used from a district public high school enrolling 319 10th graders in 2010. Propensity score methods were used to estimate the causal effect of student mobility on Math, Science, Readin...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of exam room presentations and teaching (ERPT) in a busy outpatient pediatric setting on visit duration and on parent, preceptor, and resident perceptions. METHODS This 8-week, 2-method crossover study compared first-year pediatric resident patient presentations and attending physician teaching and discussion in the exam room (ERPT) with conference area presen...

General-purpose automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have improved in quality and are being used for pronunciation assessment. However, the assessment of isolated short utterances, such as words minimal pairs segmental approaches, remains an important challenge, even more so non-native speakers. In this work, we compare performance our own tailored ASR system (kASR) with one Google (gASR)...