Interoperability is one of the major themes of research and development in information technology for the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management industries. A model-based approach to interoperability requires information structures that are standardized throughout the industry. The Industry Foundation Classes have been developed to provide this data exchange standard...

This study aims at investigating the perception and production of the English nasals /m/ and /n/ in syllable-final position by 20 Brazilian EFL learners and 3 native speakers of American English. Perception was assessed by means of both a discrimination and an identification test. Production data was collected by means of a Sentence Reading Test. The results from the perception tests revealed t...

The paper presents a new 3D semantic building model dedicated to urban development. It provides the following special semantic features: storeys, passages, opening objects, and building variants, modelling different levels of detail and design respectively temporal variants. The model also includes a parametric part supporting easy generation of buildings and building variants in the urban desi...

English proficiency difference among students is a challenging pedagogical issue in EFL classrooms worldwide. Collaborative digital storytelling has been adopted in language learning settings to increase motivation and engagement, especially for young learners. However, it remains unknown whether students of different proficiency levels can equally benefit from this collaborative approach. Thus...

Methods: The level of participation was measured across ten criteria over a one-semester period in four classes of beginner/intermediate level adult Korean students of English as a foreign language (EFL). The classes were divided into two test groups who had their level of participation assessed as part of their overall grade (n = 76) and two control groups whose participation was measured cove...

Anthropomorphized robots are regarded as beneficial tools in education due to their capabilities of improving teaching effectiveness and learning motivation. Therefore, one major trend of research, known as RobotAssisted Language Learning (RALL), is trying to develop robots to support teaching and learning English as a foreign language (EFL). As more practical studies on materials development h...

The focus of the study is on the assessment of readability for prevailing America and Chinese English textbooks with the measurement software and systems. The result indicated college reading textbooks produced by Chinese publishers seemed to vary in level, with some texts above the reading ability of most college students. Then simplification strategies used to make Chinese EFL reading texts m...

Özet. Yazılım Kalite Maliyeti ve Hata Yoğunluğu yazılım geliştirme projelerinde etkinlik ve verimlilik ölçümleri için sıklıkla kullanılan yöntemlerdir. Kalite maliyetleri en uygun seviyeye çekilirken hata yoğunluğunun da en az seviyeye indirilmesi yazılım projelerinin başarısı için kritik olan zaman, maliyet, kalite dengesinin kurulması açısından önem taşımaktadır. Bu sebeple yazılım geliştirme...

■ This paper presents three consecutive studies on the effect of extensive reading on the development of reading and vocabulary for Taiwanese university nonEnglish majors. Each study used a different approach, with subsequent studies adjusting the methodology in response to the results of the previous year. These results confirm other findings, using different subjects in other countries, that ...

Contrastive rhetoric examines differences and similarities in writing across cultures. Although mainly concerned with student essay writing in its Ž rst 30 years, the area of study today contributes to knowledge about preferred patterns of writing in many English for speciŽ c purposes situations. This article discusses some of the new directions contrastive rhetoric has taken. Following a brief...