The second theme in the literature explores ways to strengthen education in English communication for graduate engineering students who speak ESL/EFL. The next several subsections explore specific issues in this area, including methods for improving

Theoretical Orientation According to Johnson and Swain [13], the main principle of immersion education is that the target language is used as the medium of instruction so that students receive comprehensible input before making comprehensible

Under the increasing influence of globalization, many Asian governments have begun university reforms to enhance educational competitiveness and national competence in a globalizing economy. Subsequently, internationalization has impelled the restructuring of higher education institutions in

Preparation for a learner experiment For a learner experiment, we trained the prediction model with the entire BU corpus and the detection model with the entire KLEAC corpus. In the feedback part, we set θ1

Our results indicate that native Mandarin listeners could understand the English minimal pairs produced by native Mandarin speakers better than native English and EnglishMandarin bilingual listeners did. This is consistent with the findings in Bent

There are many factors influencing the intelligibility of speech for non-native listeners. One of which is called the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit (ISIB) suggested by Bent and Bradlow [1]. They conducted an experiment asking native

Traditional education methodologies, where an instructor teaches non-native learners, might be expensive and constrained with regard to time and space. However, frequent and repetitive practice is necessary for language acquisition. As a result, Computer-Assisted Language

1. System overview The proposed system consists of three parts: pitch accent prediction, pitch accent detection, and feedback (Fig. 3). The prediction part utilizes given sentences to extract syntactic and lexical features and generates pitch

Our English query exemplars have been tagged by the BBN Identifinder (Bike1 et al., 1997) system for named entities. The tagged units which are not found in OUT translation dictionary will be processed by our

We have developed an English-Chinese cross-language spoken document retrieval (CL-SDR) system, where English textual queries are used to retrieve Mandarin spoken documents, i.e. a cross-language and cross-media information retrieval task. With the growing multi-media and