a long-standing debate among the vocabulary researchers is the depth of processing to learn vocabulary. this paper is a quantitative research which considers a revision in the “involvement load hypothesis” proposed by laufer and hulstijn in 2001. it investigates the role of proficiency and evaluation in this hypothesis in order to better reveal its potential contribution to vocabulary learning....

New techniques are developed for the second pass search in our large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system. The merging of recognition hypotheses is proposed in order to linearize the exponential growth of the tree structure in the depth rst search. Branching ordering of the rst pass word graph and pruning at both word and phone levels are used to further speed up the search. The algo...

The purpose of the present study was to identify any significant relationship between critical thinking ability, L2 vocabulary knowledge, and L2 vocabulary learning strategies of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, the productive vocabulary levels test was administered to measure the learner’s L2 vocabulary knowledge and observe homogeneity in terms of vocabulary knowledge. At the second stage, ...