This study investigated the accuracy of scores assigned by self-, peer-, and teacher assessors over time. Thirty-three English majors who were taking paragraph development course at Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan and two instructors who had been teaching essay writing for at least two years at university, participated in the study. After receiving instructions on paragraph development, part...

The notes this week are based on several chapters of the very nice book by Lipson, which now unfortunately appears to be out of print. The first two sections of these notes provide a rapid summary of some of the basic notions of pure mathematics, as a reminder and in order to fix the notation and nomenclature that I will use. Subsequent sections summarize the properties of the computational dom...

indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving efl learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics brown (2001). accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

This paper discusses discourse planning of pre-organized spontaneous narratives (SpnNS) in comparison with read speech (RS). F0 and tempo modulations are compared by speech paragraph size and discourse boundaries. The speaking rate of SpnNS from university classroom lecture is 2 to 3 times to that of RS by professionals; paragraph phrasing of SpnNS is 6 times that of RS. Patterns of paragraph a...

The authors note an error in the second paragraph of the BACKGROUND section. The paragraph should read as set below. Corrected text is set in bold type. The current issue of CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology focuses on the application of population pharma-cokinetic/pharmacodynamics analysis (popPKPD) to the clinical development of two new immune-modulatory agents acting as antagonists...

In the context of natural language processing, representation learning has emerged as a newly active research subject because of its excellent performance in many applications. Learning representations of words is a pioneering study in this school of research. However, paragraph (or sentence and document) embedding learning is more suitable/reasonable for some tasks, such as sentiment classific...