exploring social robots as a tool for special education to teach english to iranian kids with autism

Exploring Social Robots as a tool for Special Education to teach English to Iranian Kids with Autism

This case study investigates the effects of Robot Assisted Language Learning (RALL) on English vocabulary learning and retention of Iranian children with high-functioning autism. Two groups of three male students (6-10 years old) with high-functioning autism participated in the current study. The humanoid robot NAO was used as a teacher assistant to teach English to the RALL group. Both RALL an...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

how to teach the suprasegmentals of english to farsi-speakers learning english as a foreign language

the major objective of the present writer is to survey some of the problems that iranian learners of english encounter as to the use of english stress patterns and intonation. it seems rather obvious that the main source of difficulty in the use of english stress and intonation is the interference comingfrom the learners' mother tongue, i.e. persian. the present writer also tries to offer ...

Using Video Self-Modelled Social Stories to Teach Social Skills to a Young Child with Autism

The present study investigated the effectiveness of combining Social Stories and Video Self-Modelling (VSM) to teach social skills to a three-year-old child with autism. A multiple-baseline across behaviors design revealed that video self-modelled Social Stories were effective at improving all three target behaviors: greeting, inviting to play, and contingent responding. In addition, these beha...

a new type-ii fuzzy logic based controller for non-linear dynamical systems with application to 3-psp parallel robot

abstract type-ii fuzzy logic has shown its superiority over traditional fuzzy logic when dealing with uncertainty. type-ii fuzzy logic controllers are however newer and more promising approaches that have been recently applied to various fields due to their significant contribution especially when the noise (as an important instance of uncertainty) emerges. during the design of type- i fuz...