Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) has been frequently used in EAP classrooms and re-examined in light of various domain-specific corpora. Although well-received, the AWL has been criticized for ignoring the fact that words tend to show irregular distributions and be used in different ways across disciplines (Hyland and Tse, 2007). One such difference concerns collocations. Academic word...

In this paper the authors suggest that teaching students to use freely available text-profiling software represents an innovative strategy and possible solution to needs of non-native English speakers who leave school without an adequate English vocabulary. First the research basis is described for a new text-profiler designed to help students acquire the high-frequency vocabulary they need in ...

We introduce a unifying framework for proving that predicate P is hard-core for a one-way function f, and apply it to a broad family of functions and predicates, reproving old results in an entirely different way as well as showing new hard-core predicates for well known one-way function candidates. Our framework extends the list-decoding method of Goldreich and Levin for showing hard-core pred...

The term ‘information ethics’ (IE) is rapidly diversifying as new technologies enter the milieu and add to already existing ‘entanglements’. Unsurprisingly, the term lacks a universally accepted definition, although there is some common ground as to its constitution. This paper explores the term using the most commonly co-occurring terms in IE literature as indexed in nine databases, namely the...

Nach einem kritischen Blick auf Informationskompetenz („information literacy“) als Konzept und Praxis wird in diesem Essay deren Bezug zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten bzw. zum Forschungsprozess vertieft. Als Kern von Informationskompetenz vor dem Hintergrund akademischer Fachkulturen wird eine erkenntnistheoretische (epistemologische) Komponente sichtbar, eine „epistemic literacy“. Informations...

A language lexicon can be divided into four main strata, depending on origin of words: core vocabulary words, fullyand partiallyassimilated foreign words, and unassimilated foreign words (or transliterations). This paper focuses on translation of fullyand partially-assimilated foreign words, called “borrowed words”. Borrowed words (or loanwords) are content words found in nearly all languages, ...

Social Adjustment and Academic Achievement of Female Children with Secure and Insecure Attachment Patterns E. Ghorbanian, M.A. T. PourEbrahim, Ph.D. P.S. Seyed Mousavi, Ph.D.   M. Habibi, Ph.D. This study was undertaken to compare social adjustment and academic achievement of female children with secure and insecure attachment patterns. The research type was descript...