The use of response cards during whole-class English vocabulary instruction was evaluated. Five low-participating students were observed during hand-raising conditions and response-card conditions to observe the effects of response cards on student responding and test scores and teacher questions and feedback. Responding and test scores were higher for all targeted students in the response-card...

Teaching reading functional vocabulary to students with intellectual disability (ID’s) is a challenge for teachers in special schools. They face many obstacles teaching which are caused by various factors, especially student characteristics and learning structures that less practical tend be academic. This study aims measure the effectiveness of using word cards picture improve skills moderate ...

A quasi-experimental action research with a pretest-posttest same subject design was implemented to determine if there is a different effect of the flash card method and the multisensory approach on kindergarteners’ achievement in sight word recognition, and which method is more effective if there is any difference. Instrumentation for pretest and posttest were the Dolch sight word pre-primer a...

Flash memories could be a basis for mass storage with real-time guarantees if a suitable model for access timing could be established. To characterize the operation timing of removable flash media such as Compact Flash (CF) and MultiMedia Card (MMC), we propose a set of benchmarks. The results of our study indicate that a simple timing model for current media cannot be established. The timing o...

Introduction Semiconductor memory market has been driven by DRAM. However non-volatile memory market, Flash memory as a representative, is growing remarkably because of its versatile application market such as cellular phone, PC memory card, silicon audio, digital still camera storage, automobile application with MCU and so forth. In terms of testing, it is quite different from DRAM. This will ...

The article analyses the ways of solving modern problem non-linguistic faculty students’ foreign language proficiency. This is relevant nowadays because when students enter university majority them show low level proficiency accordingly to Common European Framework References. purpose describe positive impact developed new tool for extending vocabulary level. research was done in three stages: ...

The present study was an attempt to compare the effect of three VLSs, namely word-part strategy, word-card strategy and context-clue strategy on immediate and delayed English vocabulary retention of Iranian third grade high school students. To this end, 90 students, studying at three high schools in Tabriz, in three intact groups, were considered as the participants of the study. In order to en...

This paper describes an investigation into current browser based runtimes including Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight as platforms for delivering web based speech interfaces. The key difference here is the browser plugin is used to perform all the computation without any server side processing. The first application is an HMM based text-to-speech engine running in the Adobe Flash plugin...

One of the most problematic areas for teachers and learners in English classrooms is prepositions. Two types of prepositions in English are spatial (space) and temporal (time) prepositions. Prepositions are words linking two entities and thereby specifying the relation of the two. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of games and flash cards in learning place and time prep...