The goal of this study was to examine the mechanisms underlying associations between neighborhood socioeconomic advantage and children's achievement trajectories between ages 54 months and 15 years. Results of hierarchical linear growth models based on a diverse sample of 1,364 children indicate that neighborhood socioeconomic advantage was nonlinearly associated with youths' initial vocabulary...

Academic self-efficacy has been positively related to academic achievement in previous studies with middle school, high school, and undergraduate students. This small-scale study investigated the relationship between student reading self-efficacy and student reading achievement with second grade students in central Montana. Participating students completed a Reading Self-Efficacy Questionnaire ...

the objective of the present study was to identify and examine the influence of instructional tools, namely, games, songs and stories on young iranian efl learners’ achievement utilizing a quantitative design. to conduct the study 65 iranian efl learners, divided into an experimental group and a control group, learning english at navid english institute, shiraz, iran, participated in the study....

Vocabulary is one of the essential components of language and learning phrasal verbs as part of vocabulary is quite challenging for foreign language learners. The present study aimed at investigating the effects of visual and auditory input enhancement on learning non-congruent phrasal verbs. The participants of the study were 90 intermediate English language learners who were divided into two ...

We propose a novel Viterbi processor for the large vocabulary real-time continuous speech recognition. This processor is built with multi Viterbi cores. Since each core can independently compute, these cores reduce the cycle times very efficiently. To verify the effect of utilizing multi cores, we implement a dual-core Viterbi processor in an FPGA and achieve 49% cycle-time reduction, compared ...

This study is to more clearly identify the problems of students’ vocabulary achievement in distance learning and how use Android applications as a way mobile address these . aims examine effectiveness concept with source named Lima Sahabat for among seventh grade students junior high school. A Pre-experimental research design was used (one group Pre-Test Post-Test design). The population this w...

The research explored the effect of morphemic analysis awareness on ESL secondary school students’ vocabulary acquisition. The quasi-experimental study was conducted with 100 ESL secondary school students in two experimental groups (inflectional and derivational) and one control group. The students’ vocabulary acquisition was assessed through two measures: Morph-Analysis Test and Morph-Vocabula...

This research aimed to find out the correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and speaking ability at grade 8 of SMP Negeri. was quantitative which used correlational technique design. The sample 30 students eight selected by clustering sampling. instruments in were test test. Vocabulary consisted 50 questions multiple choices, form role play. data interpretation results, their correlati...