Despite the growing number of studies highlighting the complex process of acquiring second language (L2) word recognition skills, comparatively little research has examined the relationship between word recognition and passage-level reading ability in L2 learners; further, the existing results are inconclusive. This study aims to help fill the gap. Three word recognition subcomponents (decoding...

A survey of the literature was made to determine the skills involved in reading comprehension that are deemed most important by authorities. Multiple-choice test items were constructed to measure each of nine skills thus identified as basic. The inrcrcorrclarions of the ninc skill scores were factored. each skill being weighted in the initial matrix roughly in proportion to its importance in re...

The goal of reading is understanding. In order to understand print, a child must be able to decode the words on the page and to extract meaning. A large body of research focuses on how children learn to decode text and how best to foster children’s decoding skills. In contrast, we know much less about the process of reading comprehension in children. In this booklet we first consider what is re...

preciated only with the assistance of pencil and paper. On pedagogic grounds, this may be a blessing in disguise, even if it slows the reading pace. In conclusion, it should be stressed that this book is not an attempt to present an uncritical, comprehensive overview of the state of affairs in a special area of biochemistry. It is highly selective and clearly centered on the author's own contri...

COVERAGE: Lecture Notes 6 and 7; Problem Sets 3 and 4; Rowan-Robinson, Chapters 4 and 5; Weinberg, Chapters 4 and 5. One of the problems on the quiz will be taken verbatim (or at least almost verbatim) from either the homework assignments, or from the starred problems from this set of Review Problems. The starred problems are the ones that I recommend that you review most carefully: Problems 1,...

The Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI), a two-way exchange between Western science and Tibetan Buddhism, is a partnership between Emory University, the Dalai Lama, and the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, India. ETSI is a comprehensive 6-year science curriculum being implemented at Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in India, representing the most significant change in 600 year...

3D modeling is a superior method of communicating many of the design intents and it is useful in the transmission of knowledge. Methods for 3D modeling – solid modeling and feature parametric modeling are discussed and are applied for generating real body models. Different variants for translation modeling with CAD systems AutoCAD® and Solid Works® are proposed. The total coefficients of change...

To deal with the new circumstances arising in the digital environment, with its particular conditions for the access, distribution and use of intellectual works, three distinct approaches exist: legal (copyright laws are modified to adapt them to the new context), technological (systems designed to control access and use of works), and contractual (through licenses to regulate the conditions of...

Nowadays, circa 10% of 7-11 olds turn out to be poor comprehenders: they demonstrate text comprehension difficulties, related to inference making, despite proficiency in low-level cognitive skills like word reading. To improve the reading comprehension of these children, TERENCE, a technology enhanced learning project, aims at stimulating inference-making about stories. In order to design and d...

The decline in religious identification and corresponding increase in the unaffiliated has been one of the most important religious changes in the United Kingdom (UK). The emergence of the “religious nones” is the most obvious sign of continuing secularization and the declining social and cultural relevance of religion. Yet while the religiously-unaffiliated often form the plurality — if not so...