Blended Learning: To Read or Not To Read

Learning to Read Bushman

The Bleek and Lloyd Collection contains notebooks that document Bushman stories and culture and are available as digital scans [1]. Converting these images to text, through a process known as transcription, would allow for the text which appears in the notebooks to be searched, indexed and compared. However, automatic transcription of Bushman texts is difficult due to the diacritics that span m...

Learning to Read-Reading to Learn.

Recent research confirms that children learn to read best by using a balanced literacy program incorporating a combination of explicit phonics, whole language, and good literature. Long before children are able to engage in reading themselves, they must feel that reading is something they want to do. Comfortable and early familiarity with letters is critical for learning to read. Essential to c...

How to Not Read a Victorian Novel

Empirical Studies in Learning to Read

In this paper, we present empirical results on the challenge of learning to read. That is, given a handful of examples of the concepts and relations in an ontology and a large corpus, the system should learn to map from text to the concepts/relations of the ontology. In this paper, we report contrastive experiments on the recall, precision, and F-measure (F) of the mapping in the following cond...

Phonological skills and learning to read.

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book phonological skills and learning to read. It is so usual with the printed books. However, many people sometimes have no space to bring the book...