Modern school mathematics.
There was much enthusiasm when the phrase "Modern School Mathematics" was coined shortly after the 1958 National Defense Education Act was passed. Many federally funded study groups such as the The Greater Cleveland Mathematics Project, The School Mathematics Study Group, as well as the The University of Illinois Arithmetic...

Robust speech recognition using fusion techniques and adaptive filtering.
INTRODUCTION Speech Recognition (SR) is a technique aimed at converting a speaker's spoken utterance into a text string or other applications. SR is still far from a solved problem. It is quoted that the best reported word-error rates on English broadcast news and conversational telephone speech are...

Translator and interpreter training; issues, methods and debates.
9780826498052 Translator and interpreter training; issues, methods and debates. Ed. by John Kearns. Continuum Publishing Group 2008 223 pages $150.00 Hardcover Studies in translation P306 Scholars of translation, most...

Sustaining linguistic diversity; endangered and minority languages and language varieties.
9781589011922 Sustaining linguistic diversity; endangered and minority languages and language varieties. Ed. by Kendall A. King et al. Georgetown U. Press 2008 238 pages $44.95 Paperback Georgetown University round table on languages and...

Linguistic theory and research based language intervention.
Children all over the world learning thousands of different languages do so in a very similar manner. Surprisingly, first words emerge, word combinations occur, and syntax is mastered at about the same very young age regardless of language or culture. The uniformity and rapidity of first language acquisition is...

Speaking of tongues; I am always sorry when language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. - Samuel Johnson.
Byline: ADRIAN E. CRISTOBAL THE fact of the matter," wrote Mr. Jovito R. Salonga in Kilosbayan, is that Tagalog, the basis of Filipino, had been used in political discourse and campaigns since the 1930s. Today, TV and radio broadcasts, especially for entertainment and for the dissemination of...

Addressing adolescent literacy: high school network addresses national deficiencies.
THE NEED TO ADDRESS ADOLESCENT LITERACY WITH A "focus on English Language Learners has created a growing realization that instructional practices need to change. Only 4 percent of eighth-grade ELL students and 20 percent of students classified as "formerly ELL" scored at proficient or advanced levels on...

GeaCom, Inc. Introduces the Phrazer(TM), the First Ever Handheld Solution for Medical Language Barriers Solving Critical Patient/Doctor Communication Issues Worldwide.
DULUTH, Minn., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- GeaCom, Inc. has developed a unique, reliable and affordable device to address the complications of multi-lingual interactions: The Phrazer(TM) (http://www.geacom.net/GeaCom_Inc..html). Almost 52 million people speak a primary language other than English in the United States making language barriers a major issue,...

Morphosyntactic issues in second language acquisition.
9781847690654 Morphosyntactic issues in second language acquisition. Ed. by Danuta Gabrys-Barker. Multilingual Matters Ltd. 2008 264 pages $89.95 Hardcover Second language acquisition; 29 P118 Teachers of, mostly, English as...

Ancestral language acquistion among Native Americans; a study of a Haida language class.
9780773450646 Ancestral language acquistion among Native Americans; a study of a Haida language class. White, Frederick H. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2008 216 pages $109.95 Hardcover PM1272 White (English, Slippery Rock U.,...