Pre-operative determination of the dominant hemisphere for speech and speech associated sensory and motor regions has been of great interest for the neurological surgeons. This dilemma has been of at most importance, but difficult to achieve, requiring either invasive (Wada test) or non-invasive methods (Brain Mapping). In the present study we have employed functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging...

This research study employed a mixed-methods approach to investigate the test takers’ perceptions and anx- iety in relation to an English language proficiency test called Community English Program (CEP). This study also evaluated the direct and semi-direct modes for speaking module of this test. To this end, 300 Eng- lish as Foreign Language (EFL) students were recruited in the study as test ta...

The study examined English teachers’ agentive actions in a speaking assessment when utilizing students’ talks as model of responses to promote peer- learning. This instrumental case views teacher agency on from an ecological perspective, emphasizing the quality engagement their environment. involved four primary teachers teaching Year 5 and 6. data were collected through classroom observations,...

It is shown that for any class C closed under linear-time reductions, the complete sets for C under sublogarithmic reductions are also complete under 2DFA reductions, and thus are isomorphic under first-order reductions.

On every n-long input, every two-way finite automaton (fa) can reverse its head O(n) times before halting. A fawith few reversals is an automaton where this number is only o(n). For every h, we exhibit a language that requires Ω(2) states on every deterministic fa with few reversals, but only h states on a nondeterministic fa with few reversals.

The ATAROS project aims to identify acoustic signals of stance-taking in order to inform the development of automatic stance recognition in natural speech. Due to the typically low frequency of stance-taking in existing corpora that have been used to investigate related phenomena such as subjectivity, we are creating an audio corpus of unscripted conversations between dyads as they complete col...