The language across the curriculum approach explored in this book implies the restructuring of curricula away from so-called "coverage" of content and toward creation of opportunities for learning in discussions, games, and in-class writing projects. Following an introduction an…
This collection of 58 articles from the recently-published third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education focuses on learning, memory, attention, problem solving, concept formation, and language. Learning and cognition is the foundation of cognitive psychology and …
Spatial cognition is a branch of cognitive psychology that studies how people acquire and use knowledge about their environment to determine where they are, how to obtain resources, and how to find their way home. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including neuroscie…
"School Success for Kids With Dyslexia and Other Reading Difficulties" provides parents and teachers with goals that will meet the needs of students who are struggling with reading, leading them to work through their difficulties and enjoy reading. It includes information, asses…
Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this book explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success. Chapters examine the cognitive bases of English acquisition, and how the process is different for children fro…
The use of language is a fundamental component of much of our day-to-day life. Language often co-occurs with other activities with which it must be coordinated. This raises the question of whether the cognitive processes involved in planning spoken utterances and in understandin…
This dissertation focuses on two different but related natural language processing problems, namely, question answering and question generation. Automated question answering (QA) is the process of finding answers to natural language questions. This problem has been studied since…
Odlin (2003) observes that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the importance of L1 transfer in second-language acquisition (henceforth SLA). To test whether L1 transfer is a significant factor in SLA of English relative clauses (RCs), an English-language acceptabi…
The current study investigated whether the pragmatic component of the language of individuals with aphasia is intact as manifested by a systematic encoding of information status in terms of 'oldness'/'newness' of information. An experimental study was conducted to find out how i…
This study is a comparison of monolingual speech errors made by Korean and English monolingual speakers, monolingual speech errors made by Korean-English bilingual speakers, and bilingual speech errors made by Korean-English bilingual speakers; it also incorporates a corpus of b…
The aim of the research is to test the possibilities of improving the quality of retrieval results in two different environments: (a) in monolingual information retrieval (IR) by applying morphological analysis module for Arabic, and (b) in testing dictionary-based methods in cr…
