PURPOSE To verify the interference of visual stimuli in written production of deaf signers with no complaints regarding reading and writing. METHODS The research group consisted of 12 students with education between the 4th and 5th grade of elementary school, with severe or profound sensorineural hearing loss, users of LIBRAS and with alphabetical writing level. The evaluation was performed w...

Broadening the participation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) fields is more than a social-justice issue; diversity is paramount to a thriving national research agenda. However, women face several obstacles to fully actualizing their research potential. Enhancing the research capacity and opportunity of women faculty requires purposeful changes in university...

Paraphrasing is an important aspect of language competence; however, EFL learners have long had difficulty paraphrasing in their writing owing to their limited language proficiency. Therefore, automatic paraphrase suggestion systems can be useful for writers. In this paper, we present PREFER 1 , a paraphrase reference tool for helping language learners improve their writing skills. In this pape...

Hyunsook Yoon Dongguk University, Korea This paper reports on a qualitative study that investigated the changes in students’ writing process associated with corpus use over an extended period of time. The primary purpose of this study was to examine how corpus technology affects students’ development of competence as second language (L2) writers. The research was mainly based on case studies wi...

BACKGROUND Reliability of Reading and Writing Assessment Instruments. AIM To investigate the reliability of two scales created to evaluate both reading and writing of children with ages between 8:0 and 11:11 years. METHOD Two scales were created: a reading scale, composed of 12 testing items organized into four competency fields (letter knowledge and phonographemic relation, decoding of iso...

Digitization causes fundamental shifts in economy and society. These changes will go in line with significant changes of corporate core competencies as well as the skills and capabilities of employees. Due to the increasing pace of technological development in production and service processes as well as the ongoing trend to automation classic educational approaches will no longer suffice to ens...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a general understanding sociolinguistic competence in the pedagogical field. discussion starts with an examination communicative competence, which highlights some key components as well theoretical debates from experts. Following discussion, there overview competence. Some linguists have developed detailed explanation section, critical importance distingu...