Veryfew attempts have been made in the past to develop instruments to measure pragmatic knowledge of second language (L2) learners. The absence of such instruments in the literature of English language teaching (ELT) underscores the need for the researchers to develop new tests that are specifically designed to assess this crucial but less explored aspect of language learners’ (LLs) knowledge. ...

Most performance evaluation models in operations management literature have assumed that tasks possess standardized completion criteria. However, in many operation systems, particularly in service and professional work, judgment is frequently required to determine when a task is completed. In thin paper, we show that introducing discretion in task completion adds a fourth variability buffer, qu...

Most performance evaluation models in operations management literature have assumed that tasks possess standardized completion criteria. However, in many operation systems, particularly in service and professional work, judgment is frequently required to determine when a task is completed. In thin paper, we show that introducing discretion in task completion adds a fourth variability buffer, qu...

This study investigated the effectiveness of colligational corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The objective of the study was to find out whether or not providing students with corpora through using colligational instruction had any significant effects on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge...

This paper describes our submission to the CoNLL-2016 shared task (Xue et al., 2016) on end-to-end Chinese shallow discourse parsing. We decompose the endto-end process into four steps. Firstly, we define a syntactically heuristic algorithm to identify elementary discourse units (EDUs) and further to recognize valid EDU pairs. Secondly, we recognize explicit discourse connectives. Thirdly, we l...

This study investigated the effectiveness of colligational corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The objective of the study was to find out whether or not providing students with corpora through using colligational instruction had any significant effects on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge...

For years, linguists have noted that intonation patterns and discourse markers encode similar pragmatic meanings across languages. The present study investigates whether a functional compensatory distribution can be documented languages by focusing on the expression of epistemic commitment in two Romance which been reported to either rich or very reduced inventory intonational (e.g., Catalan vs...

In computer vision applications, gait-based gender classification is a challenging task as person may walk at various angles with respect to the camera viewpoint. some of viewing angles, person’s limb movement can be occluded from camera, preventing perception features. To solve this problem, study proposes robust and lightweight system for classification. It uses gait energy image (GEI) repres...

The favorable gains gleaned from the provision of pre-task planning time (PTP) have struck a chord with SLA researchers as they try to manipulate task features to promote language production and development. In a similar vein, the present study is a two-fold attempt to first compare the effect of the length of pre-task planning time on discourse-analytic measures in narrative written production...