Literacy is the gateway to all learning; Assistive Technology improves reading comprehension for students, while building confidence, independence, and self-directedness. ... TTS technology may be appropriate for improving the comprehension of below-average and reading-disabled readers (Leong, 1995). ... Students taking foreign language can translate their documents and listen to the pronunciation of words. ... Discussion Literacy is the gateway to all learning; Assistive Technology improves reading comprehension for students, while building confidence and independence. ...

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These skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and viewing are used as the primary vehicle to obtain a certain language and to serve as a passage to encompass widely the interrelated realms of communication and global area. ... The learners' ability to speak is tremendous and his control in other areas of learning such as listening, reading and writing gives a clear denotation that he has the distinct chance of being a learner of a wonderful classroom teacher. ... It is a multifarious process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency and motivation. ...

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Work by Laufer (1989, 1992) with ESL readers has suggested that knowledge of these 3000 items represents a threshold figure for reading comprehension. ... It follows that the best way of bringing beginning learners to the point where they can actually do significant amounts of comprehension-focused reading (and infer meanings of new words along the way) may be to ensure that they achieve mastery of the 3000-word high-frequency core of the language. ... They contrasted proficiency increases in two groups of learners, one group who completed a reading skills workbook and another group who used c...

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