Reading time is commonly used as a basis for the study of reading. It has been observed in previous studies that unexpected sentences initiating a new context in a body of text considerably increases its reading time. There are two general accounts of the mechanism behind this slowdown. The first views reading, both slow and fast, to be a single, continuous process. The second views reading as ...

In face-to-face instruction of Reciprocal Teaching (RT), students’ reading processes and dialogues with their peers are hardly observed. As a result, the teacher has few clues to identify students’ learning difficulties and provide further scaffoldings. To record students’ reading processes and enhance their comprehension, this study reports on the design of an online reciprocal teaching and le...

Research conducted in South Africa indicates that many South African students who register for undergraduate study each year are under-prepared for university education and that many of these students also have low levels of reading ability. This has an adverse effect on their chances of academic success. In order to meet the reading needs of students in the 21st century, educators are pressed ...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this the early history of data networks, how can you bargain with the thing that has many be...

Can automatically generated questions scaffold reading comprehension? We automated three kinds of multiple-choice questions in children’s assisted reading: 1. Whquestions: ask a generically worded What/Where/When question. 2. Sentence prediction: ask which of three sentences belongs next. 3. Cloze: ask which of four words best fills in a blank in the next sentence. A within-subject experiment i...

Indian epics have not been analyzed computationally to the extent that Greek epics have. In this paper, we show how interesting insights can be derived from the ancient epic Mahabharata by applying a variety of analytical techniques based on a combination of natural language processing, sentiment/emotion analysis and social network analysis methods. One of our key findings is the pattern of sig...

Overcome with horror at the bloody climax of the battle of Pharsalus, Lucan's narrator threatens to derail his own epic project by wishing tears would perish, and claiming he will stay silent. This assertion – immediately disregarded – illustrates a paradox in Lucan’s text: his work is epic, both in its martial content and its meter, but the nature of civil war disrupts the narrative by provoki...

Among the countless categories of works entitled “ballad”, we have structured this paper - for both objective and subjective reasons around one which distinctly represents epic creation to are referring, from a certain area Romanian territory, i.e., Dobrudja. On hand, subject is too generous in terms number value information it entails so as approach by referencing larger than between Danube Bl...

In the past, due to the restricted gate count available on an inexpensive chip, embedded DSPs have had limited parallelism, few registers and irregular, incomplete interconnectivity. More recently, with increasing levels of integration, embedded VLIW processors have started to appear. Such processors typically have higher levels of instruction-level parallelism, more registers, and a relatively...