Research conducted over the last three decades has changed our view of reading as a mere process of decoding. As Carrell and Eisterhold state EFL/ESL reading theory has been influenced during the past decades by Goodman (from the mid- to late 1970s) who views reading as a “guessing game” in which the “reader reconstructs, as best as he can, a message which has been encoded by a writer…
A growing number of reading professionals have advocated teaching literacy through music and song; however, little research exists supporting such practices. The purpose of this study was to determine if sung story book readings would enhance story comprehension and narrative re-tellings in children with histories of speech and language delay. Thirty kindergarten and first grade children l…
The Fabrication of aircraft structural parts is the bottleneck for manufacturing the modern aircrafts due to their structure complexity and technical difficulty. In order to improve the capability to fabricate the complicated aircraft structural parts and the efficiency of technical preparation, and also to accumulate and share the domain knowledge of manufacturing process, and reuse the 3…