Nowadays Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is becoming not only enormously popular but also increasingly important in our lives and education system. Generally, learners are usually eager to work on computers or with various kinds of modern technology. This research was carried out to find out whether using weblogs is effective in Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary and writing skill...

We provide an in-depth analysis of the integration of an Arabic-to-English transliteration system into a general-purpose phrase-based statistical machine translation system. We study the integration from different aspects and evaluate the improvement that can be attributed to the integration using the BLEU metric. Our experiments show that a transliteration module can help significantly in the ...

Sign language (SL) recognition, although has been explored for many years, is still a challenging problem for real practice. The complex background and illumination conditions affect the hand tracking and make the SL recognition very difficult. Fortunately, Kinect is able to provide depth and color data simultaneously, based on which the hand and body action can be tracked more accurate and eas...

this study aimed at examining the relationship between emotional intelligence (ei) and learning english language vocabulary. the male (n= 119) and female (n= 98) participants who were randomly selected from high schools in zanjan province were asked to complete a persian version of an emotional intelligence (ei) questionnaire and answer a vocabulary achievement test. the ei questionnaire consis...

In this paper we present a SoC system able to perform Small-Vocabulary Automatic Speech Recognition (SVASR) based on Hidden-Markov Model (HMM) recognition techniques. Through in-depth analysis of the data-flow within the SPHINX 3 software [1], we create an efficient single-chip architecture tailored to the specific computational needs of a the system. By creating a tokenpassing scheme to contro...

Knowledge-acquisition research started in the eighties as a small research community focusing on knowledge-intensive problems in relatively small domains. In this paper we look at the influence the Web has had on knowledge acquisition and vice versa. To this end we discuss in some depth four topics, namely the ontology language OWL, the vocabulary language SKOS, the notion of ontology alignment...

Researchers in the area of EFL learning have tried to put the way(s) by which EFL learners learnEnglish vocabulary into some frames and present them as strategies. This paper reviewsdescriptive research on vocabulary learning strategies in English as a foreign language. Thereview focuses on common strategies that learners use in vocabulary learning such as dictionarystrategies, note-taking stra...

While a growing body of previous studies have addressed speaking foreign language, very little research actually explores the problems faced by medical students that speak English in Indonesian classrooms. To address this empirical gap, used qualitative case study method to investigate pharmacy students' during their for purpose class. I conducted in-depth interviews gather information from par...