Professor Plum was murdered in his new SMC science building office! Unfortunately, the killer was clever enough to eliminate most physical evidence of how the crime was committed. Your boss, Inspector Clouseau of Santa Monica Homicide has called in your team of forensic chemists to examine a blood stain found on the carpet under Professor Plum's desk for possible clues. It is hoped that chemica...

A new plastic envelope culture test that is selective for Gardnerella vaginalis was compared with a conventional method. Vaginal specimens from 92 women were cultured. Results from both methods were compared with the results of pelvic examinations and clinic screening tests used to diagnose bacterial vaginosis (BV). G vaginalis was isolated more often in the envelope than by the conventional me...

Considering the significance of corrective feedback and its effect on L2 vocabulary building, this study aimed to investigate extent which direct (DCF) metalinguistic (MCF) could contribute use appropriate formal written words among Arabic learners English. A writing test (IELTS Task 2) as a pre post-test was administered gauge participants’ (N= 96) lexical resources. The sample randomly divide...

This demonstration showcases a virtual agent, Mr. Clue, capable of acting in the role of clue-giver in a wordguessing game. The agent has the ability to automatically generate clues and update its dialogue policy dynamically based on user input.

This document describes how the Real Time transport Protocol (RTP) is used in the context of the CLUE protocol. It also describes the mechanisms and recommended practice for mapping RTP media streams defined in SDP to CLUE Media Captures.

The focus here is a detailed case description of a broad-based model for treat ing developmental phonological disorders. Successful treatment comprising 27 consultations over 17 months, of a girl aged 4;4 at the outset, with a mod erate phonological disability, is examined in detail. The model’s strength is in its combination of family education, metalinguistic tasks, phonetic produc tion proce...

the necessity of conducting more studies addressing the development of pragmatic profciency and strong pragmatic awareness for english language learners has made the role of instruction and feedback in teaching pragmatic knowledge of utmost importance. the present study evaluates the relative effectiveness of four types of instruction for teaching some pragmatic markers including topic change m...

This paper reports a study of 85 Iranian EFL learners in the English Language Department of Urmia University. It explores the possible differences between performance of 38 Persian monolingual and 47 Turkish-Persian bilingual EFL learners on metalinguistic tasks of ungrammatical structures and translation. The underlying hypothesis is that bilinguals in diagonal bilingual contexts experience a ...

Asabasis for a systematic approach to investigating the effects ofwritten corrective feedback, this article presents a typology of the different types available to teachers and researchers. The typology distinguishes two sets of options relating to (1) strategies for providing feedback ( for example, direct, indirect, or metalinguistic feedback) and (2) the students’ response to the feedback ( ...