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an investigation of accuracy and complexity across different proficiency levels in written narrative task

abstract this quasi-experimental study was aimed at examining the impact of storyline complexity on the grammatical accuracy and complexity of advanced and intermediate efl learners. a total of 65 advanced and intermediate efl learners were selected from iran language institute (ili). an intact group including 35 intermediate participants and another intact group with 30 advanced participants ...

Different Classes of Words Are Learned in Different Ways

What determines vocabulary growth patterns? The research presented here examines the growth pattern of words listed in the McArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory using a computational model. Our model characterizes vocabulary growth curves based on the sampling of learning relevant events and a threshold (the number of such events needed) for acquisition of the word. Using this gene...

Different Ways of Reading, or Just Making the Right Noises?

Different Ways to Achieve Trust in MANET

MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc Network) is hot spot for research due to its various advantages and disadvantages. Providing safe communication between mobile nodes, recognization the position of nodes, reducing overhead, handling misbehavior and location updates are such a difficult issues in ad-hoc network, so providing trust schemes is an important in this network. MANET provides some basic functions l...

Anaesthetists understand their work in different ways.

Editor—We read with interest the investigation by Larsson and colleagues 1 reporting their qualitative study of how trainee anaesthetists understand their work. We congratulate them on their decision to pursue this type of enquiry. Only by addressing those aspects of anaesthetic expertise, which cannot be set out in syllabuses and measured as competencies, can a true picture of the complexity o...