Speaking is an essential aspect of English learning. It reflects the student’s ability to express and comprehensively use language. In 21st century, international exchanges have become increasingly frequent. Therefore, more important as a tool communication. Despite this, under long-term pressure examinations, teaching in our country only focuses on reading, writing, other content closely relat...

PURPOSE Speech and other oral functions such as swallowing have been compared and contrasted with oral behaviors variously labeled quasispeech, paraspeech, speechlike, and nonspeech, all of which overlap to some degree in neural control, muscles deployed, and movements performed. Efforts to understand the relationships among these behaviors are hindered by the lack of explicit and widely accept...

abstracttask-based language teaching is considered an effective way to achieve a harmony between grammar and communication. the present study investigates two different ways of teaching modal verbs: task-based versus traditional approaches. to this purpose, an oxford placement test was administered to select 40 homogeneous participants out of a larger population who took this test. the selected...

wireless sensor networks(wsn) have unique properties that distinguished them from other wireless networks and have special challenges. not-chargeable, not-changeable and limited power supplies of sensor nodes is the most important challenge of this networks, and if the power supply of node expired, a part of data maybe lost. because of the importance of covers in wireless sensors, in this work ...

The present study investigates the impact of meaningful input on L2 learners’ vocabulary use and their fluency in oral performance (immediate repeat tasks), as well whether effects are mediated by prior knowledge working memory. Ninety university students learning English a foreign language were randomly assigned to one three groups: (N = 29), repetition 32), no-input (i.e., baseline group) 29)...

conclusions child dental neglect has many long-term impacts. the main professionals who are responsible for identification, intervention and treatment of child dental neglect are dental practitioners. however, other professionals cannot ignore this task. finally, child dental neglect, despite its derivative outcomes, may be a presentation of a broader maltreatment. results distinguishing the di...

it has been argued that oral lichen planus (olp) may increase the risk of oral cancer. patients with olp may be at an increased risk for developing of oscc (oral squamous cell carcinoma). here, the author reports a case of olp initially presenting with a clearly benign olp lesion that transformed into oscc over a course of 18 months. this report may provide a clear evidence for olp lesion as a ...