The Challenge How can collaborative learning be approached from a processing perspective? Can vocabulary involvement frameworks predict gains tasks as compared to individual tasks? Are these relevant the language classroom settings? This study explores incidental acquisition and in an Arabic online classroom.

The “digits” small-vocabulary task is important for many telephone-based applications such as computer-assisted long-distance dialing or credit-card billing, requires extremely high accuracy, and focuses research on acoustic-level processing. On the other hand, in many other tasks a speaker-independent domain-specific vocabulary (such as “collect call”, “calling card”, “operator”, or “help”) ne...

Information Retrieval (IR) faces different difficulties, notably those related to vocabulary mismatch issues and term dependencies. In the last few years, language models based on neural networks have been proposed to deal with both term dependencies and vocabulary mismatch issues in complex natural language processing tasks. However, to be efficient, these models require huge amounts of traini...

In this paper we describe a study of the effectiveness of mobile learning (m-learning) in the form of podcasting, for teaching undergraduate students in Higher Education. Podcasting involves downloading a series of audio or video broadcasts (files) onto a digital media player, via a computer, over a period of weeks. These can then be watched or listened to when, where and as often as students c...

Podcasts are audio or video files which can be automatically downloaded to one’s computer when the episodes become available, then later transferred to a portable player for listening. The technology thereby enables the user to listen to and/or watch the content anywhere at any time. Formerly popular as radio shows, podcasting was rapidly explored and used in different areas and with several pu...

This essay addresses two questions on the topic of podcast innovation. The first, ‘What is a podcast?’ answered via review literature, investigating podcasting history and its evolution. definition arising from this analysis – centring episodic audio, convenient both to produce experience takes into account recent changes, providing an up-to-date description term, useful for further research to...