We aim at identifying how the English language and EMI professor are representedin an interview witha lecturer practitioner of as a Medium Instruction (EMI) syllabus training course, projectsthe teacher reader-in-the-text by overlappingideational interpersonal aspects. The words interest were manually identified classified according to TRANSITIVITY(FUZER; CABRAL, 2010; HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 20...

Learning Problem Solving Methods in order to Reduce Stress and Anxiety, and Increase Achievement Motivation T. Aboutalebi Ahmadi Learning to solve problems can help reduce anxiety and stress on the one hand, and increase chances of success, on the other. A sample of 78 freshmen at a teacher training college was randomly selected from among 156, and then divided into two groups of ...

The objective of the work described here is to compare the isolated English language digit speech recognition using Hidden Markov Model for speaker independent system. Two different datasets were collected of audio recordings for the said comparison of isolated digits of English language. Speakers here read numeric digits 0 to 9 i.e. ZERO to NINE. One corpus is self recorded signals and other i...

The purpose of this study was to examine Turkish English as a Foreign Language Learners’ (EFL) handling of unknown words while reading English texts. The study also examines the relationship between these learners’ perceptions and actual practices in the employment of knowledge sources while trying to guess the meaning of unknown words. The participants involved in this study were 40 pre-servic...

This case study evaluates the characteristics of classroom speech found in classes taught by non-native elementary school English language instructors in Japan using corpora compiled by the authors. A corpus of spoken language was compiled from the lessons using XML tagging that marked speaker turns, language use, and classroom interaction modes. We then performed quantitative analyses on both ...