With growing of memory capacity, to detect memory faults is more and more difficult, and its cost increases rapidly. Since these faults seriously decrease the yield rate of memories, it is necessary to find an effective test algorithm for memory to improve the chip yield rate. In these days, as word-oriented memories are broadly used, testing for word-oriented memory becomes more important. In ...

Methodologically, vocabulary instruction has faced significant ups and downs during the history of language education; sometimes integrated with the other elements of language network, other times tackled as a separate component. Among many variables supposedly affecting vocabulary achievement, the role of teaching word history, as a schemata-building strategy, in developing reading comprehensi...

This study aimed to investigate whether there is any significant relationship between the readability and vocabulary profile including the most frequent words (K1 words) and academic word list (AWL) of reading passages of Four Corners series which were EFL textbooks. To determine the readability of the texts, the Flesch–Kincaid (1975) readability test was used, while the texts' academic word li...

Abstract Little is known about the effects of bilingualism and distributional properties word relationships on children's development semantic convergence, operationalized as ability to produce associates that mirror adults’ responses in a association task. Forty-five Mandarin–English bilingual, 32 Spanish–English 28 English-speaking monolingual children, aged 4 7, produced three each 15 single...