The aim of this study was to investigate the role of linguistic and intelligence factors in the Iranian IELTS candidates’ speaking performance. Linguistic factors include depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge as well as grammar knowledge. Narrative and verbal intelligences represent the non-linguistic factors. The participants included 329 learners who took 5 validated tests and also partic...

By the end of primary school, students are confronted with expository texts known for their high proportion domain-specific academic vocabulary words. These words usually comprise Greek or Latin roots in internal structure. Recent findings showed that knowledge and is related to reading comprehension. However, no study has investigated such a relationship francophone context. Therefore, present...

This study explores how primary school children develop their metacognitive knowledge and vocabulary both types of are dynamically correlated from 1st to 4th grade. The longitudinal sample included 426 first-grade students (M = 6.6 years, SD .51; 50.2% boys, 49.7% girls) five public schools in China. A set tests on were administered four times over years. one-on-one-basis test was based student...

this study has examined the effect of semantic mapping on learning vocabulary across genders. the researchers selected 120 intermediate students after the administration of a standard proficiency test. a vocabulary test was also used to measure the students’ vocabulary knowledge. the experimental group received semantic mapping in the pre-reading stage, butthe control group did not receive this...

Granular solid hydrodynamics (GSH) is a continuum-mechanical theory for granular media, whose wide range of applicability is shown in this paper. Simple, frequently analytic solutions are related to classic observations at different shear rates, including: i) static stress distribution, clogging; ii) elasto-plastic motion: loading and unloading, approach to the critical state, angle of stabilit...

The Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) is a comprehensive terminology integration system designed to support the development of electronic information systems. The UMLS integrates 161 source vocabularies, though for a given purpose, a developer may not need every vocabulary. With the breadth of vocabularies available, there is a need for classifying the UMLS source vocabularies with respec...

This investigation examined grade as a source of systematic variation in the African American English (AAE) produced by students in preschool through fifth grades. Participants were 400 typically developing African American boys and girls residing in low- or middle-income homes in an urban-fringe community or midsize central city in the metropolitan Detroit area. Between preschoolers and kinder...