IUGA 2009: some perspectives from a neutral corner

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

China Perspectives, 2009/4 | 2009

From Historical Perspectives to Some Modern Possibilities

A historical perspective on the study of asymmetries in planetary nebulae (PNs) is presented. We also describe our ongoing work in high resolution spectroscopy of planetaries, and discuss some likely future directions for the study of asymmetrical PNs. The first systematic study of planetary nebulae (PNs) was undertaken at Lick Observatory from 1914 to 1917 and is reported in detail in Volume 1...

Some perspectives from leading academics and practitioners

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the fundamental and critical differences between two of the most powerful methodologies in a process excellence initiative in any organisation. Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken was to collate opinions from a number of leading academics and practitioners from five different countries. It was also important to ensure that all parti...

An LR Category-Neutral Parser with Left Corner Prediction

In this paper we present a new parsing model of linguistic and computational interest. Linguistically, the relation between the paxsez and the theory of grammar adopted (Government and Binding (GB) theory as presented in Chomsky(1981, 1986a,b) is clearly specified. Computationally, this model adopts a mixed parsing procedure, by using left corner prediction in a modified LR parser. O N L I N G ...