This investigation examined the mixed effects of visual input enhancement, explicit instruction, pushed output, and corrective feedback on noticing and intake of English conjunctive adverbs. Participants included 83 intermediate EFL students enrolled in a grammar and writing course. They were assigned to a control group (n = 22), explicit instruction + pushed output + explicit corrective feedba...

This longitudinal study investigated the impact of different Frequency Patterns (FP) on the syntactic production of a six-year-old EFL learner in a home context. Target syntactic constructions were presented using games and plays and were traced for their occurrence patterns in input and output. Following each instruction period, the constructions were measured through immediate and delayed ora...

OBJECTIVE Classroom teachers teach handwriting, but when problems arise, students are referred to occupational therapy for remediation. This study, conducted by occupational therapists, reviews handwriting instruction by classroom teachers in one school district. METHOD Teachers from kindergarten through grade 6 were asked to complete an open-ended questionnaire regarding handwriting instruct...

This paper examines the benefits that can arise from increased use of labs in computer science instruction. While some use of labs is widespread in the earliest computer science courses, lecture and other “hands-off” time dominate. We have designed and run lower-division courses that successfully implement lab-centric instruction, in which the instructor contact time with students is either who...

We propose a new kind of finite-state automata, suitable for structured input characters corresponding to unranked trees of small depth. As a motivating application, we regard executing morphosyntactic queries on a richly annotated text corpus.

Such differences may also be responsible for the cause of hereditary disease. Genetic Association Hypothesis testing then is the study to find which SNP’s are causal (or associated) vis-a-vis a hereditary disease. Going site to site we try and associate the genotype with a phenotype. Usually these genetic association mappings are very sparse, (1 in 1000) and may represent basic differences in b...

Educational laboratory exercises cover a wide spectrum ranging from programmed and highly structured tasks to discovery-learning-based and unstructured experiences. In structured or directinstruction-based exercises, students are given lists of materials, step-by-step procedures, and often specific results to calculate. In unstructured or discovery-learning-based exercises, students are given a...

This paper presents an environment for collecting clinical data using structured speech input. The system uses nomenclature terms and data consistency rules to limit speech input to a discrete set of phrases which can be configured to support a wide range of studies. This information is stored in an eventoriented data model as strongly typed observations for subsequent distribution and data ana...