Textbook language: Incentive or obstacle

Convergence: obstacle or opportunity?

Developing an English Language Textbook Evaluative Checklist

In the selection of a new textbook, it is important to conduct an evaluation to ensure that it is suitable. Evaluation is widely acknowledged as a powerful means of improving the quality of education. There are three methods of evaluation that can be used for evaluating English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks. An evaluative checklist is one of these methods that can be used to help select the...

Epistasis: Obstacle or advantage

Identification of genetic loci in complex traits has focused largely on one-dimensional genome scans to search for associations between single markers and the phenotype. There is mounting evidence that locus interactions, or epistasis, are a crucial component of the genetic architecture of biologically relevant traits. While discussion about the best way to identify models for complex traits is...

A Textbook-based Serious Game for Practising Spoken Language

We describe a web-enabled serious game intended to help German-speaking beginner students of English improve their generative and auditory competence. The tool is built on top of the existing CALL-SLT platform, the architecture of which is briefly described. It offers a short course of 8 interactive lessons using a combined vocabulary of about 450 words, and was developed in collaboration with ...

Natural Language Generation for a Smart Biology Textbook

In this demo paper we describe the natural language generation component of an electronic textbook application, called Inquire1. Inquire interacts with a knowledge base which encodes information from a biology textbook. The application includes a question-understanding module which allows students to ask questions about the contents of the book, and a questionanswering module which retrieves th...