Teaching a child to read is all about "decoding," a fundamental skill in which readers sound out unfamiliar words. While it may seem like a fancy educational term – and some parents will hear it a ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...

Mrs. Mora teaches us how to use prefixes and suffixes to decode words related to farming. Farmers use a lot of challenging words as part of their work growing and harvesting our food. Mrs. Mora ...

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A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...

What does helping students learn to read have in common with saving lives in hospital intensive care units? A simple but important concept that allows both to be more predictable. For the last five ...

Abstract: This paper discusses tone pronunciation scoring for Mandarin multi-syllable words in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) System. A commonly used tone evaluation method is using GMM to ...