U ntil recently, most neuroscience research on the brain was based on autopsies of individuals who lost writing skills before death and thus acquired disorders later in development (e.g. Anderson, Damasio, & Damasio, 1990; Basso, Taborelli, & Vignolo, 1978; Brain, 1967). That all changed with the development of technology near the end of the 20th century, when studies then focused on the living...

the writing skill is often perceived as the most difficult language skill since it requires a higher level of productive language control than other skills (celce-murcia & olshtain, 2000). the present study introduced a discourse-based framework for the teaching of writing on the basis systemic functional linguistics (sfl). to this end, 60 students majoring in teaching english as a foreign ...

BACKGROUND Collaborations among researchers, clinicians, and individuals with mental illness from high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are crucial to produce research, interventions, and policies that are relevant, feasible, and ethical. However, global mental health and cultural psychiatry research publications have been dominated by HIC investigators. OB...

This study explored disciplinary writing in grades 4-6 and the potential of to learn learning write across curriculum prepare pupils for their future writing. Using Ivanič’s discourses as an analytical framework, observation protocols from 104 observers 374 lessons 76 Swedish schools were analyzed exploring school different subjects. Analysis data reveals that most teachers required with a sing...

Programming by demonstration systems have long attempted to make it possible for people to program computers without writing code. These systems typically employ artificial intelligence techniques to learn from user behavior in order to predict their future behavior. However, while these systems have resulted in many publications in AI venues, none of the technologies have yet achieved widespre...

We report here on our experiences with designing computer-based creativity-support systems over several years. In particular, we present the design of three different systems incorporating different mechanisms of creativity. One of them uses an idea proposed by Rodari to stimulate imagination of the children in writing a picture-based story. The second one is aimed to model creativity in legal ...

Programming by demonstration systems have long attempted to make it possible for people to program computers without writing code. These systems typically employ artificial intelligence techniques to learn from user behavior in order to predict their future behavior. However, while these systems have resulted in many publications in AI venues, none of the technologies have yet achieved widespre...