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NF05-637 The Power of Family Literacy
Virtually all families want their children to learn to read and write, and to succeed in school, and are eager to provide any support necessary.
Family involvement in everyday language- and literacy-related activities has a significant impact on children\u27s language dvevelopment acquisition of early literacy skills. Early language and literacy activities at home contribute to differences when children enter school
I Want That! [poster]
Title of poster session: I Want That! Letting Patrons Request On-Order Materials
Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University has traditionally displayed bibliographic records in its online catalog for materials that are in the acquisition and cataloging process, resulting in patrons often discovering desirable materials that are not yet available. To speed these materials through the acquisition and cataloging processes and into the hands of eager users, we designed a web link in each bibliographic record that patrons can use to request notification when the item is available for use. The technology is simple, the workflow manageable, and the good will generated is gratifying
A Grammatical Paradigm
Avram Noam Chomsky is known for his work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for his political pursuits, and most importantly, for his theories in the discipline of linguistics. Chomsky linguistic pursuits aimed to answer the following linguistic studies: how a person learns and develops a language, how a person structures and understands a sentence, and what the purpose of linguistics is as a whole. His theories dramatically changed the linguistic paradigm. Due to this change, this paper also attempts to illustrate the correlation between scientific philosopher Thomas Kuhnâs belief in âparadigm shiftsâ and the subsequent change in linguistic thought spurred by Chomskyâs grammatical theories
Morphological Analysis as Classification: an Inductive-Learning Approach
Morphological analysis is an important subtask in text-to-speech conversion,
hyphenation, and other language engineering tasks. The traditional approach to
performing morphological analysis is to combine a morpheme lexicon, sets of
(linguistic) rules, and heuristics to find a most probable analysis. In
contrast we present an inductive learning approach in which morphological
analysis is reformulated as a segmentation task. We report on a number of
experiments in which five inductive learning algorithms are applied to three
variations of the task of morphological analysis. Results show (i) that the
generalisation performance of the algorithms is good, and (ii) that the lazy
learning algorithm IB1-IG performs best on all three tasks. We conclude that
lazy learning of morphological analysis as a classification task is indeed a
viable approach; moreover, it has the strong advantages over the traditional
approach of avoiding the knowledge-acquisition bottleneck, being fast and
deterministic in learning and processing, and being language-independent.Comment: 11 pages, 5 encapsulated postscript figures, uses non-standard NeMLaP
proceedings style nemlap.sty; inputs ipamacs (international phonetic
alphabet) and epsf macro
The role of cultural diversity in e-based language learning.\ud A comparative study of Bulgarian and Lithuanian learners of German as a foreign language using an online learning platform
The study reported on in this paper focusses on the impact of cultural\ud
factors in media-based language acquisition. The study sets out to investigate the\ud
role of learnersâ cultural dispositions during the use of media-based programs in\ud
language learning. More specifically, the study aimed at finding out to what extent\ud
the cultural disposition of learners outweighs the learnersâ individual preferences\ud
in a media-based (online) language course. The analysis of input data produced\ud
strong differences between the two learning cultures at the outset of the study.\ud
Lithuanian learners were found to be more passive, more rule oriented, more\ud
reliant on their mother tongue as a means of instruction and less tolerant vis-Ă -vis\ud
ambiguity when they entered the experiment. They also turned out to reject open\ud
(less teacher-guided) forms of communicative learning requiring active\ud
participation and, instead, preferred language teaching to be (passively)\ud
entertaining. Bulgarian learners by contrast were more tolerant vis-Ă -vis ambiguity\ud
and more goal-oriented with respect to learning the foreign language for academic\ud
success abroad. They also turned out to be more focussed on and appreciative of\ud
the technical aspects of the program and thus were eager to explore new\ud
approaches to media-based learning. However, over the course of the study both\ud
groups of participants developed an unexpected ability to adapt to the electronic\ud
media even though the program seemed to counteract their cultural-specific\ud
preferences. The study shows that both groups of learners improved significantly\ud
over the course of the experiment with respect to language skills and that\ud
acceptance of the program was high in both groups despite the initial resistance\ud
and despite the fact that the program requires a well developed level of\ud
independence. Despite the fact that a tendency to act according to cultural\ud
dispositions can be shown those influences were not found to be statistically\ud
significant
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Mismanagement of Palestine and Subsequent Land Grab
The fall of the Ottoman Empire was heavily anticipated and watched by numerous European nations eager to gain authority. The 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France pre-maturely divvied up the Ottoman Empire in the event of a collapse. Mandatory Palestine, as promised, would fall to the British. The nation quickly became a mangle of commitments to the Arab and Jewish community. The acquisition of Palestine was imperative to the introduction of a Jewish state, proximity to the burgeoning supply of Oil and the defence of India. Ultimately, the misconduct by the British led to many deadly riots and the land grab of Palestine.Peer reviewe
Municipal Conservation Outreach and Technical Assistance, Taylor, J
The New Hampshire Estuaries project awarded a grant of 18,660,000 of new money available for conservation projects in those towns. Past the term of the grant, additional towns will be voting on increasing the amount of money from the Land Use Change Tax going to their conservation funds in 2004. Eight more towns in the estuaries area are considering open space bond proposals for the 2004 town meeting season, for a possible total of $19,600,000 in new funds for permanent land conservation. The coming challenge for the New Hampshire land conservation community will be to encourage the towns with these new sources of money to invest it wisely. Properties need to be selected according to guidelines that reflect a mix of natural resource values and local interests. Projects need to be conducted in a professional manner to insure long-term viability and excellent stewardship
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