the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of weblog task assessment on iranian efl learners’ reading ability. to this purpose, a group of 30 english language students (both male and female) in rozaneh language institute in najafabad were selected based on their performance on the opt. the researchers tried to select a homogeneous sample in terms of age factor and proficiency level...

framed in a cognitive approach to task-supported l2 vocabulary learning, the present study used a pedagogical approach to investigate the relative effectiveness of tasks with different involvement loads on the vocabulary knowledge of iranian efl learners. the goal was to investigate the way that the construct of involvement load is related to the input hypothesis (krashen, 1985) and the output ...

After the re-emancipation from pure mathematics in the latter part of the twentieth century, application-oriented mathematicians are now facing a wealth of new areas of activities and challenges for their research. This means that apart from individual open problems, two typical examples of which will be outlined here, applied mathematics is facing a lot of new tasks, from modelling practical s...

Techniques for object-oriented software development range from well established (such CRC cards, scenario analysis and object/class modeling) to newer developments. In this tutorial will be included some of the more recent developments within OPEN (Henderson-Sellers and Graham, 1997). These are likely to be selected from, for example, distributed computing, roles, rule modeling, project managem...

The Turing Test is of limited use for programs falling far short of human performance levels. We suggest an extension of Turing’s idea to a more differentiated measure the "Turing Ratio" which provides a framework for comparing both human and algorithmic task performance. Games provide an example of the concepts. It is argued that evolutionary computation is a key method for amplifying human in...

To support commercial-strength web development it is as important to utilize a process as it is in regular, non-web information systems development. Using an established OO/CBD development process (OPEN), we evaluate its efficacy in web development support and propose new and amended Activities and Tasks that should be included in OPEN in order to fully support the new demands of website constr...