Previous studies have shown that children learning alphabetic writing systems who have language impairment or dyslexia exhibit speech perception deficits. However, whether such deficits exist in children learning logographic writing systems who have poor reading comprehension remains uncertain. To further explore this issue, the present study examined speech perception deficits in Mandarin-spea...

This study investigated the impact of code-switching on speaking ability of Iranian low proficiency EFL learners. Moreover, it was an attempt to show what functions existed behind code-switching strategies used by the EFL learners. To this end, 60 male and female Iranian EFL learners age-ranged between 20 and 30 participated in the study. Data collection instruments which were used were the Int...

In this paper we examine the judged similarity among the eight basic focal colors, and their names, among female and male Chinese (n D 68) and English (n D 52) speaking respondents. The major Ž ndings are: (1) all respondents share approximately sixty percent of their knowledge of the judged similarity structures of both semantic and perceptual tasks, (2) there are genuine individual difference...

The ability to communicate verbally permits humans with one another. For students a variety of first languages, English is the languages increasing requirement. Developing speaking skills always viewed as difficult and time-consuming process that necessitates significant amount effort. This study aimed investigate use topical-based presentation (TOP) in enhancing ESL students’ performance overa...

the study was conducted with the aim of examining the rate of foreign language anxiety in male and female language learners. flcas (foreign language classroom anxiety scale) was administered to two groups of male and female learners. the mean scores of flcas indicated a significant difference with females having considerably higher levels of anxiety than males. from 38 female learners, 22 were ...

this study is an attempt to investigate the nature of authenticity in two interviews: the interview section of the toefl (tse) and the speaking module of the ielts. after defining the term authenticity based on bachman (1990), and bachman and palmer (1996) it is argued that the h:lts interview is a more authentic test than the tse. this is done in two ways. first, by using bachman and palmer&ap...

Due to its fast computational speed and low storage cost, hashing has been effectively applied large-scale multimedia retrieval tasks, such as medical video security retrieval. Most existing cross-view methods require good matching information, however, this exact pairing relationship is difficult fully realise in practice. The association between views incomplete, the label information. This t...

Increasingly many real world tasks involve data in multiple modalities or views. This has motivated the development of many effective algorithms for learning a common latent space to relate multiple domains. However, most existing cross-view learning algorithms assume access to paired data for training. Their applicability is thus limited as the paired data assumption is often violated in pract...

The present study investigated the factor structure of a field trial sample of the Test of English as a Foreign LanguageTM Internet-based test (TOEFL iBT). An item-level confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted for a polychoric correlation matrix of items on a test form completed by 2,720 participants in the 2003–2004 TOEFL iBT Field Study. CFA-based multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) analys...