Reading comprehension is one of the most important skills, especially in the EFL context. One way to improve reading comprehension is through strategy use. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of question-generation strategy on learners' reading comprehension. The participants in the study were 63 intermediate students from three intact groups in Resa institute in Boukan, They we...

Five annonaceous acetogenins, rolliniastatin-1 [structure: see text], rolliniastatin-2 [structure: see text], laherradurin [structure: see text], squamocin [structure: see text], annonacin [structure: see text], and rotenone as a reference, differing in their NADH oxidase inhibition activity, have been evaluated for antifeedant, insecticidal, trypanocidal and cytotoxic effects on insect, mammal...

This study uses a moving windows self-paced reading task to assess text comprehension of beginning and intermediate-level simplified texts and authentic texts by L2 learners engaged in a text-retelling task. Linear mixed effects (LME) models revealed statistically significant main effects for reading proficiency and text level on the number of text-based propositions recalled: More proficient r...

Our experiments in TRECVID 2009 include participation in the high-level feature extraction and automatic search tasks. In the high-level feature extraction task, we used a feature fusion-based general system architecture utilizing a large number of SVM detectors, followed by a post-processing stage utilizing the concepts’ temporal and inter-concept co-occurrences. We submitted the following six...

Our experiments in TRECVID 2009 include participation in the high-level feature extraction and automatic search tasks. In the high-level feature extraction task, we used a feature fusion-based general system architecture utilizing a large number of SVM detectors, followed by a post-processing stage utilizing the concepts’ temporal and inter-concept co-occurrences. We submitted the following six...

Our experiments in TRECVID 2009 include participation in the high-level feature extraction and automatic search tasks. In the high-level feature extraction task, we used a feature fusion-based general system architecture utilizing a large number of SVM detectors, followed by a post-processing stage utilizing the concepts’ temporal and inter-concept co-occurrences. We submitted the following six...

There appears to be little research on the standard of post-16 students’ writing and how it can be improved. In respect of such students, the focus of teaching professionals seems to be on content rather than on the writing process; arguably this leads to weaknesses in written expression. This article examines some current research and follows one teacher’s attempts to put in place some strateg...

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painting and art criticism are based on two different semiotic systems. the expression in painting is basically visual and in criticism is verbal. on the other hand, all expression is linguistic, that is expression and comprehension in all semiotic systems is basically linguistic. the art criticism, then, is situated between two poles: visual signs and verbal signs. it has as function to reorga...

In this paper we examine language modeling for text simplification. Unlike some text-to-text translation tasks, text simplification is a monolingual translation task allowing for text in both the input and output domain to be used for training the language model. We explore the relationship between normal English and simplified English and compare language models trained on varying amounts of t...