More innovative test methods may measure language learners’ test performance more accurately, contributing to much fairer decisions. This study examined Iranian language learners’ performance on cloze-elide test as an innovative, integrative test method. It specifically focused on investigating whether personality types correlated with their performance and whether personality types could predi...

Although the use of metaphorical markers in corpora has been studied to a largeextent (e.g., Glucksberg & Keysar 1993; Skorczynska & Deignan, 2006; Sznjder,2005), no attempt to the best of the researchers' knowledge has been made todescribe metaphorical marking in a comparative analysis of 2 corpora in bothnational and international journals of applied linguistics in Iran. The gap envisagedhas ...

The purpose of this research is to propose a development method of a metaphorical search engine that reflects the metaphor understanding process of human-beings. Our goal is to realize a search engine which outputs the image of an object inputted metaphorically using the expression of “A like B”. For example, when you input “A dog like clouds”, the metaphorical search engine would output a visu...

This paper describes a system designed to perform text interpretation and reasoning using a spatial processor and a network of prototypical memories. These memories of basic embodied acts such as moving and grasping, are organized in a hierarchical structure based on the system’s own set of grounded feelings associated with each memory. The prototypes form metaphor schemas organized into a tall...

conclusions in conclusion, rsasl and rsacod differed for time variables (tt and bt) and hr responses. despite being non-significant, the trend that adding cod reduced the percentage differences in tt and bt between the two groups highlighted the role of sport specialization. results compared with rsasl, tt and bt were worst in rsacod (38.13 vs. 27.52 s and 3.67 vs. 2.66 s, p < 0.001, respective...