With the advent of the distinctive characterization of academic languagein the past thirty years, there has been atremendous move in the ESL/EFL world towardsformulatinginstructional techniques compatible with the very nature of these skills. As a part of this effort, this studyinvestigated the role of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach in achieving these ends. The study e...

Introduction. Evaluation of scholastic achievment is an important part of the educational process. Therefore assessment principles, methods and practices must be entirely compatible with education objectives. The previous studies have indicated that at most medical colleges evaluation methods are monotonous. These traditional methods are neither profitable nor appropriate to assess the clinical...

It is widely believed that the major purpose of foreign language learning is to master the speaking skill of that language. Learners even evaluate their foreign language learning on the basis of their achievement in speaking proficiency. This study discusses different teaching methodologies aimed at the development of task-based language learning, drama and the manifestation of scenario-based t...

This paper proposes GProp, a deep reinforcement learning algorithm for continuous policies with compatible function approximation. The algorithm is based on two innovations. Firstly, we present a temporal-difference based method for learning the gradient of the value-function. Secondly, we present the deviator-actor-critic (DAC) model, which comprises three neural networks that estimate the val...

The direct effect of global warming on viticulture is already apparent, with unexpected pests and diseases as one the most concerning consequences. Deploying sticky traps grape plantations to attract key insects has been backbone conventional pest management programs. However, they are time-consuming processes for winegrowers, conducted through visual inspection via manual identification counti...

Currently, teachers who opt to use multimedia teaching resources in the classroom have to create them from scratch, or reuse others that they may find on the internet. Learning Object Repositories (LOR) have recently started to be created to facilitate the search and reuse of teaching materials. In this work we describe the final results of a project to establish a LOR for use by the teaching s...