The present quasi-experimental study mainly investigates the role of literature as input for reading comprehension in Iranian EFL classrooms. To be more exact, it investigates the effects of authentic and simplified literary texts on the reading comprehension of Iranian advanced EFL learners. The participants were 35 male and female Iranian EFL learners who were at advanced level, studying in a...

We present in this paper a numerical investigation of literary texts by various well-known English writers, covering the first half of the twentieth century, based upon the results obtained through corpus analysis of the texts. A fractal power law is obtained for the lexical wealth defined as the ratio between the number of different words and the total number of words of a given text. By consi...

Translation of a literary text is a difficult task, for understanding literature requires knowledge of various linguistic levels of a literary text in addition to strategies and methods of translation. To this should still be added cognitive-based translation training which helps practitioners preserve the aesthetic aspects of a literary text. Focusing on short story as a genre with both ...

This paper discusses the comparison between two kinds of features in clustering of some literary poems by the same author, the Romanian poet, Mihai Eminescu. Using Precision, Recall, Rand Index, Relative Precision and Purity measures we conclude that the topics of poems are better characterized by the phonemes as features than by geometric properties (described by six indicators: V/N ;A; Λ;V ar...

Chinese word segmentation is the initial step for Chinese information processing. The performance of Chinese word segmentation has been greatly improved by character-based approaches in recent years. This approach treats Chinese word segmentation as a character-wordposition-tagging problem. With the help of powerful sequence tagging model, character-based method quickly rose as a mainstream tec...

Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...

The language of Sergei Yesenin’s prose is still poorly studied. article aims to analyze individual authorial formations extracted by the method continuous sampling from story Yar, short “Bobyl and Druzhok” novella At White Water. main methods analysis were descriptive, component, contextual ones. As a result study, we identified lexemes, bilexemes phraseological units. We recorded occasional na...