One of the crucial parts of any corpus-based machine translation system is a large-scale bilingual corpus that is aligned at various levels such, as the sentence and phrase levels. This kind of corpus, however, is not easy to obtain, and accordingly, there is a great need for an efficient construction method. We approach this problem by integrating two large monolingual corpora in two different...

background: there are two main methods employed for the evaluation of the reading comprehension ability of students of esp; one using specialized english texts, and the other with general english texts. purpose: to determine whether or not there is a correlation between the two methods.     methods: in the regular         competency for academic purposes.

among the linguistic resources for creating grammatical metaphor, nominalization rewords   processes and properties metaphorically as nouns within the experiential metafunction of language. following halliday's (1998a) classification of grammatical metaphor, the current study investigated nominalization exploited in an english applied linguistics textbook and its corresponding persian translati...