A high-stakes Portfolio-Based Language Assessment (PBLA) protocol that was fully implemented in all Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) programs 2019 requires instructors and students set language-learning goals complete, compile, reflect on numerous authentic language tasks. Due the barriers incurred when communicating with beginner English-as-a-second-language literacy learners (BELLs)...

In European towns of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the sounds people heard were very different from those of today. Yet the difference goes much deeper: whereas today we try to escape city noise, for the inhabitants of earlymodern towns sound served as a crucial source of information. It formed a semiotic system, conveying news, helping people to locate themselves in tim...

In this paper we present an analysis, modeling, and synthesis approach to bell sounds. Recorded bell sounds are first analyzed by high-resolution frequency-zooming modal estimation technique, where each partial is described typically by 2-3 submodes in order to include the warble characteristics of envelope beating in the partials. The bells are then modeled by inharmonic digital waveguides (DW...