The objectives of this paper are to identify the metadiscourse devices used by English learners at different levels language acquisition established Common European Framework Reference and categorise them facilitate assessment learning textual interpersonal devices. First, a learner corpus essays written was compiled. Then, were classified in categories. results showed lists frequencies example...

We employed participatory, community-based research methods to explore the perceptions of home among women who are homeless. Twenty women engaged in one or more techniques including qualitative interviews, digital story telling, creative writing, photovoice, and design charrette to characterize their perceptions of home. Analysis of the data revealed themes related to the physical, affective, a...

The clinical case presentation is an important mode of professional communication as well academic genre in medical education. Examining both students' and experienced doctors' linguistic practices can reveal how students differ their underlying knowledge, interpretation execution the that mark novice status. In this paper, we describe differences use theme initiating sentences presentations pr...

This paper proposes a knowledge representation model and a logic proving setting with axioms on demand successfully used for recognizing textual entailments. It also details a lexical inference system which boosts the performance of the deep semantic oriented approach on the RTE data. The linear combination of two slightly different logical systems with the third lexical inference system achiev...

Martin Drapeau1, John Christopher Perry2, Annett Körner3: 1Counselling psychology and psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada, 2psychiatry, McGill University & Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec Canada, 3Counselling psychology and Oncology, McGill University & Segal Cancer Center & Mcgill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec Canada. Correspondence address: Martin Dra...

introduction: with the increasing role of the internet as one of the most important sources of information on the one hand, and the enhancement of its usability on the other, it is necessary for web designers and developers to be familiar with the criteria that make a website usable. therefore, this paper aimed to provide knowledge about the interactivity, changeability , and non-textual conten...

the purpose of performing this research was studying relationship of religious orientation and interpersonal trust with educational progress of students. the research was descriptive correlation one.statistical population included all highschool students of birjand city in educational year 93-94 ,which was based on morgan table and random cluster method ,355 samples was chosen and studied. to g...