Multilingual Openmind

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6

Context within Common Sense

There exists many software applications that attempt to use common sense reasoning to assist users do everyday tasks, such as schedule their day or write emails. One such program is ARIA, which relies on the information in OpenMind’s common sense database. However, these applications are only as useful as the quality of the common sense information with which they are reasoning. One vast improv...

Reflections by Robert Phillipson on English in Post-Revolutionary Iran. From Indigenization to Internationalization, M. Borjian (2013) Multilingual Matters, ISBN 978-1847699091

Transculturation and Multilingual Lives: Writing between Languages and Cultures

This paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. The paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...

The Relationship between the Interpersonal Intelligence and Reading Comprehension Achievement of Iranian Bilingual and Multilingual EFL Learners

The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between interpersonal intelligence of Iranian bilingual and multilingual EFL learners and their reading comprehension achievement. To do so, 60 intermediate EFL students were selected from a group of 80 based on their OPT scores. They were non-randomly divided into two experimental groups. Data collection took place during the summer sem...