Abstract This paper presents IdiomsTube ( https://www.idiomstube.com ), the first-ever computer-assisted language learning tool for facilitating of English idiomatic expressions from YouTube videos. The web-based is designed to automatically (1) assess speech rate and lexical difficulty level any learner-chosen English-captioned video; (2) generate a range vocabulary-building revision tasks (e....

This research investigates the value of teaching philosophies (TP) for today’s academics and their institutions. It offers a new framework to enhance academic development, personal resilience, institutional capacity building. Since 1990s, TPs have been formalised as personally constructed reflectively written statements educational values, beliefs, practices. Whereas within universities, instit...

This study explores the similarities and differences between English Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions, difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of expressions containing zero, two, three, twenty, sixty, hundred, thousand…etc., another specialized numerical prefixes (mono-, bi-, milli-, kilo-, mega-) were collected, analyzed compared. It was found fall into 4 cate...