Field Trip Strategy in Enhancing Writing Descriptive Text

Enhancing Iranian EFL Learners’ Descriptive Writing Skill through Genre-based Instruction and Metalinguistic Feedback

English language teaching (ELT) writing practitioners have long attempted to improve EFL/ESL learners’ competence in writing with recourse to either instruction or feedback. Likewise, researchers have, to date, mainly focused on either of these treatments to enhance language learners’ composing ability. Which treatment leads to more significant improvements is, however, unclear. Moreover, of th...

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I/S Nordforbrænding is an inter-municipal waste management company located north of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, which serves approximately 180,000 inhabitants. It was founded in 1965 and it is owned by six municipalities in North Sealand: Allerød, Søllerød, Hørsholm, Fredensborg-Humlebæk, Karlebo and Helsingør as shown in Fig. 1. The company’s mission was to establish a Waste-to-Energy ...

Enhancing children’s writing

In this chapter I suggest that the study of the works of a single author not only fulfils a range of objectives but can also provide a deeper insight into how children’s engagement with texts might ‘empower’ them and thereby influence their independent writing. It is therefore a ‘way in’ to literature for all age groups and abilities, and places the emphasis on the importance of the texts thems...

Text writing in the air

This paper presents a real time video based pointing method which allows sketching and writing of English text over air in front of mobile camera. Proposed method have two main tasks: first it track the colored finger tip in the video frames and then apply English OCR over plotted images in order to recognize the written characters. Moreover, proposed method provides a natural human-system inte...