Statistical approaches to machine translation have long been successfully applied to a number of ‘distant’ language pairs such as English-Arabic and English-Chinese. In this work we describe an experiment in statistical machine translation between two ‘related’ languages: European Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Preliminary results suggest not only that statistical approaches are comparable t...

The present study investigated the significance of mobile learning (m-learning) of English vocabulary items through a traditional contrasted with a blended method of content representation. To achieve the goals, sixty semi-illiterate adults were evaluated for their knowledge of the English alphabet and then randomly placed in two groups: traditional (G1) and the blended group (G2). Next, they w...

the present paper investigated the effectiveness of concept mapping as a learning strategy on efl students’ self-regulation (metacognitive self-regulation, time and study environment, effort regulation, peer learning, and help seeking). sixty university students participated in the study. they were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups, each including thirty students. they were a...

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The present paper sought to examine the effectiveness of less experienced teachers' participationin experienced teachers' classes on students' achievements in terms of their proficiency levels inboth Elementary and Pre-intermediate levels. This quasi-experimental design study was conductedin three Language institutes in Tehran, Iran. Twenty-one EFL teachers were selected asexperienced and less ...

This paper presents the first version of the SpeechRater system for automatically scoring non-native spontaneous high-entropy speech in the context of an online practice test for prospective takers of the Test of English as a Foreign Language internet-based test (TOEFL iBT). The system consists of a speech recognizer trained on non-native English speech data, a feature computation module, using...