How much is personality structure affected if one or more highest-level factors are first removed? A sequential factors approach

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

The Solution First Programming Process—or “How Quick Fix is much more than a quick fix”!

Learning to program is hard and one major obstacle for students is getting to grips with the programming process itself: What do I do now, what are the next steps, and what end result do I want to achieve? Further complications arise as many, even simple, designs require quite a lot of code to be written that are just “stepping stones” on the path to a solution. Thus, instead of “writing the co...

If one watermark is good, are more better?

Invisible watermarks are not all alike. Different techniques are used to embed different types of watermarks into digital media objects to accomplish different goals. Some watermarks are intended to robustly carry ownership information; some are intended to carry content-verification information; and some are intended to convey side information, or captions. In this talk, some opportunities to ...

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

How Can Personality Factors Contribute to Make Agents More ‘Believable’?