objective: as psychiatrists or psychotherapists, many of us may have had contact with people by e-mail and/or through online ‘chat rooms’. these people may write to us about their various problems, especially in their interpersonal relationships; discuss their queries about conflicts with their spouse, partner, and friends; or complained of low self-esteem and problems at work. in this article,...

A high correlation between on-line rate of prog,ess and student achievement on a standardized test was found for a computer-assisted instruction (CAl) program in initial reading. In most cases, CAl measures of progress were better indications of spring test performance than was the pretest given in the fall. Rates of progress in the parts or strands of the CAl program were highly correlated wit...

Vocabulary is fundamental to reading. As elementary students cross over from learning to read into reading to learn, vocabulary knowledge becomes increasingly important. The massive amount of vocabulary a student must learn precludes large amounts of time spent on any single word (Carver 1994, Schwanenflugel et al. 1997), except perhaps for some words that the student will read and write many t...

As past and present technical, scientific, literary books and documents are digitalized, more sophisticated tools are required for exploring this textual ocean. Computer assisted reading and analysis of text (CARAT), as practiced in social sciences and the humanities, is more than navigating, recalling, summarizing, and filtering, tools. Even text mining strategies have not been satisfying for ...

The objective of this study was to compare the effect of computer-assisted practice with the sensorimotor approach on the remediation of handwriting problems in children with dysgraphia. In a randomized controlled trial, experiments were conducted to verify the intervention effect. Forty two children with handwriting deficit were assigned to computer-assisted instruction, sensorimotor training,...

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This article describes Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in relation to interactive approach to reading. The author has designed an experiment on the speed of reading on the screen with adequate comprehension and the traditional method of text reading in the classroom. Compared with the traditional classroom methodology, the author raises questions whether computers are a challenge to ...