Functional caption literacy development through intra-formal L2 viewing

ASR technology to empower partial and synchronized caption for L2 listening development

This study introduces a tool, partial and synchronized caption (PSC), for training second language (L2) listening skill. PSC uses an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to realize word-level alignment between text and speech while it refers to the corpora to effectively select a subset of words for inclusion in the caption. The selection criteria are based on three features contributing t...

Viewing youth and mobile privacy through a digital policy literacy framework

Synchronous Text-Based Computer-Mediated Communication Tasks and the Development of L2 Academic Literacy

Studies on the use of synchronous text-based computer-mediated communication (SCMC) tasks have mostly focused on how they could be used to facilitate the learning of different aspects of a second language. Recent research from a functional perspective has suggested the need to examine the impact of SCMC tasks on the development of L2 academic literacy (Mohan & Luo, 2005). With the increase use ...

Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy.

We describe the development of an abbreviated version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) to measure patients' ability to read and understand health-related materials. The TOFHLA was reduced from 17 Numeracy items and 3 prose passages to 4 Numeracy items and 2 prose passages (S-TOFHLA). The maximum time for administration was reduced from 22 minutes to 12. In a group of...

effect of oral presentation on development of l2 learners grammar

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...