justice is defined as moderate, and it means putting everything in its place. true justice, based on its nature, has been long ago one of the most basic concerns of human life and the divine religions. quran as a guidance for human beings; has emphasized this doctrine in all aspects of life. in some verses using allegories, this concept has been further explained. besides, the preponderance of ...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of visual aids on elementary Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary learning. To achieve the aim of the study, 60 elementary EFL learners were selected based on their performance on proficiency test. After administering the pretest, the participants of the experimental group received vocabulary visually. The teacher used different kinds of strategies such as...

Corpus linguistics and its relationship with modern lexicography are paid more and more attention by linguists and lexicographers in recent years. This paper, based on corpus analysis, mainly studies EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners’ synonymous errors (SE), which refer to errors made by learners when using synonyms in writing. The unit observed is a pair of commonly used synonyms glad...

a term in one language rarely has an absolute synonymous meaning in the same language; besides, it rarely has an equivalent meaning in an l2. english synonyms of seeing and hearing are particularly grammatically and semantically different. frame semantics is a good tool for discovering differences between synonymous words in l2 and differences between supposed l1 and l2 equivalents. vocabulary ...

This report describes a query expansion method based on the expansion of geographical terms by means of WordNet synonyms and meronyms. We used this method for our participation to the GeoCLEF 2005 English monolingual task, while using the well-known Lucene search engine for indexing and retrieval. The obtained results show that the proposed method was not suitable for the GeoCLEF track, while W...

concepts include very useful indicators. For example: ’Judicial Power’ yields trial, court, trials, courts, jurisdiction, proceedings, evidence, law, inquiry, adjudication: all in all 10 direct synonyms and 12 indicators in the first 25 words (this is the lowest important nonpolitical actor in figure 2). 6 Summary and Discussion This paper proposes a method to aid the researcher in two steps th...