This multiple case study investigated pedagogical decisions in encountering challenges pre-service teachers’ integrated-skills instruction and the underlying factors influencing their different responses to during overseas Chinese teaching practice programme. Two cohorts (n=8) of teachers were involved this when they participated programme for 15 weeks at seven K-12 schools North Central Thaila...

Free-form spoken input would be the easiest and most natural way for young children to communicate to an intelligent tutoring system. However, achieving such a capability poses a challenge both to instruction design and to automatic speech recognition. To address the difficulties of accepting such input, we adopt the framework of predictable response training, which aims at simultaneously achie...

indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving efl learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics brown (2001). accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

In this study, musculoskeletal disorders, energy consumption and input costs of paddy labors have been studied in cultivation, crop protection, and harvesting rice in Northern Iran, Guilan province. The sample size of the study consisted of 74 paddy workers of the study region. The data were collected through Nordic questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The results indicated that the la...

This lecture introduces reconfigurable computing and the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) by discussing the density advantage of configurable computing and some of the trade offs involved in designing and FPGA. Some important conclusions were that wiring and routing area dominate total area, three and four input lookup tables are ideal for area efficiency, five and six input lookup tables a...

The purpose of this study is to identify the Hierarchical Wavelet Neural Networks (HWNN) and select important input features for each sub-wavelet neural network automatically. Based on the predefined instruction/operator sets, a HWNN is created and evolved using tree-structure based Extended Compact Genetic Programming (ECGP), and the parameters are optimized by Differential Evolution (DE) algo...

Visibly one-counter automata are a restricted kind of one-counter automata: The input symbols are typed such that the type determines the instruction that is executed on the counter when the input symbol is read. We present an Angluin-like algorithm for actively learning visibly one-counter automata that runs in polynomial time in characteristic parameters of the target language and in the size...

This narrative describes a collaboration between three university literacy faculty and subject librarian undertaken to embed library instruction across the semester in required courses--children’s literature, early literacy, disciplinary literacy--in order help undergraduate preservice teachers better understand incorporate children’s literature high interest into their teaching. Concrete, scaf...