Recent findings have provided growing evidence in support of process-genre-oriented writing pedagogy. However, these types approaches tended to place form-focused instruction (FFI) the background, particularly explicit teaching grammar (i.e., isolated FFI). As such, limited improvement accuracy was reported by recent studies. It is, therefore, important look into how FFI might further improve t...

This paper reports on a new pedagogy for Chinese language teaching and learning at elementary schools through exploratory classroom instruction using Information and Communication Technologies. The study used quantitative method to collect data from two elementary schools of China. The results showed that:(1) the three-in-one pedagogy of “character recognition, in-class reading and in-class wri...

Previous experimental studies have indicated that young people’s text comprehension and summarisation skills can be improved by techniques based on text concept mapping (TCM). However, these studies have done little to elucidate a pedagogy that can make the techniques adoptable within the context of typical secondary school classrooms. This paper explains how a collaborative research approach h...

As the demand for multimedia grows, the development of information retrieval systems including information about music is of increasing concern. Radio stations and music TV channels hold archives of millions of music tapes. Gigabytes of music files are also spread over the web. To automate searching and organizing the music files based on their genre is a challenging task. In this report, we pr...

Audio-based music similarity measures can be used to automatically generate playlists or recommendations. In this paper the similarity measure that won the ISMIR’04 genre classification contest is reviewed. In addition, further improvements are presented. In particular, two new descriptors are presented and combined with two previously published similarity measures. The performance is evaluated...

In the paper a genre-based, participatory method for content analysis is described. The method was elaborated in the case study conducted for a church where analysis of content units within a set of genres was needed. The experiences imply that the genre-based method could be applied for scrutinizing the content within small and medium sized enterprises. Benefits of the method include user part...

The current educational system is constructed so as to emphasize the evolution of rule-based reasoners (students who understand the ‘what’ of a task/problem). However scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technologists are not rule-based reasoners. They are model-based reasoners/thinkers (e.g., they do recursion, diagnostic reasoning, cognitive assessment, cognitive appraisal). To provide ...

As the text databases available to users become larger and more heterogeneous, genre becomes increasingly important for computational linguistics as a complement to topical and structural principles of classification. We propose a theory of genres as bundles of facets, which correlate with various surface cues, and argue that genre detection based on surface cues is as successful as detection b...