This study investigated the impact of using the technique of self-monitoring on non-academic EFL learners’ composition writing. Fifty female students studying English at Navid English Institute in Shiraz, Iran were chosen based on the results of a proficiency test. They were all 16-20 years old and were intermediate learners of English who were divided into two control and experimental groups a...

This study examined the effects of task complexity and pre-writing condition on Malaysian L2 learners’ perceptions their argumentative writing concerning perceived difficulty, stress, confidence to perform task, interest in motivation complete task. It investigated whether dyadic triadic conditions for peer discussion modulate willingness participate learning opportunities. In a repeated-measur...

This study examined the effects of cognitive task complexity increase on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) as well as the temporal distribution of the cognitive and metacognitive processes involved in computer-mediated L2 written production. To this end, the study employed a between-subjects experimental design with 85 EFL learners from a language learning institute in Iran. Participa...

This paper evaluates the application of the Minimum Classification Error (MCE) training to online-handwritten text recognition based on Hidden Markov Models. We describe an allograph-based, character level MCE training aimed at minimizing the character error rate while enabling flexibility in writing style. Experiments on a writer-independent discrete character recognition task covering all alp...

Manually configuring large firewall policies can be a hard and error-prone task. It is even harder in the case of IPsec policies that can specify IP packets not only to be accepted or discarded, but also to be cryptographically protected in various ways. However, in many cases the configuration task can be simplified by writing a set of smaller, independent policies that are then reconciled con...