The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching communication strategies on students’ self-efficacy in speaking in content-based courses in Iranian EFL context. To this end, 30 students in two content-based classes, one as the experimental group and another as the control group, in SAMA private junior high school school in Tabriz, participated in this study. Communication st...

While there is currently a broad selection of Web accessibility evaluation tools, most of them are designed around post-development quality control principles rather than on-going quality assurance measures. It seems that many of the Web accessibility evaluation tools encourage separated evaluation processes rather than to integrate evaluation tasks into the natural Web development process. It ...

by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/si.2010.33.4.603. The Virtuality of Virtual Worlds, or What We Can Learn from Playacting Horse Gi...

Tagging educational content with knowledge components (KC) is key to providing useable reports to teachers and for use by assessment algorithms to determine knowledge component mastery. With many systems using fine-grained KC models that range from dozens to hundreds of KCs, the task of tagging new content with KCs can be a laborious and time consuming one. This can often result in content bein...

companies, interconnect a large number of devices as well as persons. Within such networks, content can be exchanged and services can be utilised. The more complex such networks become, the more opportunities might exist to choose a desired service or content. If multiple of those choices need to be made periodically or in short time, manual selection may not be a suitable procedure. From this ...

Application stores (app stores) enable developers to interact with users by responding their reviews. Many continuously monitor user reviews and seek respond them effectively efficiently boost satisfaction, which in the end increases app’s rating. Thus, it is essential study developer responses how improve them. This research was aimed at evaluating both Apple App Store Google Play banking doma...

In many cases technological properties are expressed in terms of numerical parameters and the parameter values appear in product descriptions. This makes these limitations concrete and meaningful to pragmatic developers. It is the responsibility of engineering educators to make sure that our students understand the technological properties, know how to express them, know how to determine them f...

This configuration leads to questions on the characteristics of the collective action that enables the transition from individual voluntary commitments that are potentially volatile and unstable to the completion of a collective production that involves continuity and sustainability. The production of free software cannot be considered the contingent result of a spontaneous convergence of indiv...