Nowadays Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is becoming not only enormously popular but also increasingly important in our lives and education system. Generally, learners are usually eager to work on computers or with various kinds of modern technology. This research was carried out to find out whether using weblogs is effective in Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary and writing skill...

this study aimed at examining the relationship between emotional intelligence (ei) and learning english language vocabulary. the male (n= 119) and female (n= 98) participants who were randomly selected from high schools in zanjan province were asked to complete a persian version of an emotional intelligence (ei) questionnaire and answer a vocabulary achievement test. the ei questionnaire consis...

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) maintains a vocabulary of several dozen metadata terms, most notably the fifteen-element Dublin Core. Within DCMI, however, discussion has focused more on the practices, policies, and models around the Core. Its initial single-resource data model is evolving towards a fuller framework for evaluating the diversity of Dublin Core implementations. Terms (...

Researchers in the area of EFL learning have tried to put the way(s) by which EFL learners learnEnglish vocabulary into some frames and present them as strategies. This paper reviewsdescriptive research on vocabulary learning strategies in English as a foreign language. Thereview focuses on common strategies that learners use in vocabulary learning such as dictionarystrategies, note-taking stra...

We present an improved denoising method based on filtering of the noisy wavelet coefficients using a Wiener gain for automatic speech recognition (ASR). We optimize the wavelet parameters for speech and different noise profiles to achieve a better estimate of the Wiener gain for effective filtering. Moreover, we introduce a scaling parameter in the Wiener gain to minimize mismatch caused by dis...

Automatically detect suicidal people in social networks is a real social issue. In France, suicide attempt is an economic burden with strong socio-economic consequences. In this paper, we describe a complete process to automatically collect suspect tweets according to a vocabulary of topics suicidal persons are used to talk. We automatically capture tweets indicating suicidal risky behaviour ba...