The capacity of secondary school teachers to support general literacy and to teach discipline-specific literacy skills depends upon their personal literacy competence. Diagnostic testing of 203 secondary teaching undergraduates at one Australian university revealed deficiencies in personal literacy competence that could affect their future teaching effectiveness. The sample of undergraduates wa...

A randomized control trial compared the effects of two kinds of vocabulary instruction on component reading skills of adult struggling readers. Participants seeking alternative high school diplomas received 8 h of scripted tutoring to learn forty academic vocabulary words embedded within a civics curriculum. They were matched for language background and reading levels, then randomly assigned to...

The problem of collaborative work in open environment has become a center of academic and industrial attention. Creating, sharing, using, and storing knowledge in both tacit and explicit terms are essential to maintain competitive advantages in a highly competitive open market. This paper discusses the problem of work in collaborative and open environment where language is the main component of...

This study focuses on the process of developing a learning environment that uses tablets and Quick Response (QR) codes to enhance participants’ English language vocabulary knowledge. The author employed the concurrent triangulation strategy, a mixed research design. The study was conducted at a private school in Izmir, Turkey during the 2012-2013 academic year. The study sample was determined u...

Programming may be more di$cult than necessary because it requires solutions to be expressed in ways that are not familiar or natural for beginners. To identify what is natural, this article examines the ways that non-programmers express solutions to problems that were chosen to be representative of common programming tasks. The vocabulary and structure in these solutions is compared with the v...

Data were analyzed from a population-based, longitudinal sample of 8,650 U.S. children to (a) identify factors associated with or predictive of oral vocabulary size at 24 months of age and (b) evaluate whether oral vocabulary size is uniquely predictive of academic and behavioral functioning at kindergarten entry. Children from higher socioeconomic status households, females, and those experien...

Information retrieval and spoken-term detection from audio such as broadcast news, telephone conversations, conference calls, and meetings are of great interest to the academic, government, and business communities. Motivated by the requirement for high-quality indexes, this study explores the effect of using both word and sub-word information to find in-vocabulary and OOV query terms. It also ...