This article identifies two causes of the absence of methodology for teaching Japanese reading to children from overseas: 1. The absence of a theoretical foundation for the principle of acquisition of academic Japanese; 2. The absence of content-based reading instruction − that is, instruction for learning school subjects. This article then proposes the Endogenous Development Model as a theoret...

This paper intends report an experiment to determine the errors in data entry tasks in the context of rural Indian data entry operations. Rate of errors in data entry is a critical metric for determining output efficiency of data entry operations. Errors in data entry, for example in banking, may result in terrible consequences. It is posited that there is an increase in errors committed by dat...

I-vector based recognition is a well-established technique in state-of-the-art speaker and language recognition but its use in dialect and accent classification has received less attention. In this work, we extensively experiment with the spectral feature based i-vector system on Finnish foreign accent recognition task. Parameters of the system are initially tuned with the CallFriend corpus. Th...

In our paper we focus on analysing textual information usage (selected politeness factors of speech act) in mother tongue and in foreign language to identify phenomena of a language consciousness transfer from the mother tongue into a foreign language communication – transference phenomena – and their impact on textual structures of politeness in chosen languages. Our aim was to make an analysi...