This study is conducted under the domain of Vygotskian Socio-cultural Theory (SCT) of mind and the notion of dynamic assessment to elevate the linguistic accuracy of EFL learners’ writing skill. 40 homogenous intermediate EFL learners from four intact classes were divided into two dynamic assessment (DA) and non-dynamic assessment (NDA) groups. As a pre-test, the participants were given writing...

It is surprising to find that there have been many shops in Banda Aceh use English on their signs. This study was conducted investigate the shop owners’ reasons for using To obtain data from owners, observation sheet and interview guide were used as research instruments. The analyzed by model proposed Miles, Huberman, Saldana (2014). found 10 owners gave four they signs, which can be classified...

We propose a strategy for updating the learning rate parameter of online linear classifiers for streaming data with concept drift. The change in the learning rate is guided by the change in a running estimate of the classification error. In addition, we propose an online version of the standard linear discriminant classifier (O-LDC) in which the inverse of the common covariance matrix is update...

Language can be ambiguous at all levels – at the level of the word, of the phrase, of the sentence, as well as of the text or dialogue. The source of ambiguity is often lexical or morphological, but ambiguities also emerge when passing from one level of linguistic analysis – morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics – to another. This transition from one level of representation to another can, ...