Raven Progressive Matrices (RPMs) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WSIC-R) are two common general intelligence measuring scales used in Iranian high schools. In this paper the relationships between g factor scales and students’ reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary was examined by correlation and regression analysis. Standard tests of grammar and vocabulary and Cambridge K...

This study was conducted to compare the impact of two vocabulary learning techniques, namely context learning and translation learning, on vocabulary recall of sixty pre-university Iranian learners of English as a foreign language. They were divided into two groups of high and low proficient. In regard to two vocabulary learning conditions, each group was divided into two subgroups of fifteen. ...

The framework of this work is an already operational voice activated Directory Assistance (DA) service that allows a large amount of data from the field to be collected. Our goal is to improve its performance by adapting the acoustic models and the formulation variants of the system to the field. For model adaptation, we propose to dynamically generate without supervision additional Hidden Mark...

negotiation, as an interactional strategy and proactive focus on form (fof) have received increased attention in second language research. the combination of negotiation and proactive fof, however, has not been examined in relation to l2 vocabulary learning. to address this gap, the present study investigated how the amount of negotiation and proactive fof impacted learners’ vocabulary knowledg...

a growing body of research has indicated that students of esl/efl are reticent and unwilling to be engaged in oral activities in english lessons. communicative language ability includes speaking ability, so vocabulary knowledge plays an integral role in speaking a language. however, there have been few studies examining the degree to which vocabulary knowledge affects speaking ability. the pres...

Speaker and task adaptation can be made more efficient if an automatic speech recognition system can actively elicit particularly useful adaptation data from a new speaker for a given speech recognition task. This paper presents such an active approach based on an automatic analysis of how difficult the given task vocabulary is. Comparative experiments are designed and conducted for a simple ap...

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been an active research topic in the last decade. In this paper we proposed an image retrieval method using global and local features. Firstly, for local features extraction, SURF algorithm produces a set of interest points for each image and a set of 64-dimensional descriptors for each interest points and then to use Bag of Visual Words model, a cluster...

This study aimed at examining the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and learning English language vocabulary. The male (N= 119) and female (N= 98) participants who were randomly selected from high schools in Zanjan Province were asked to complete a Persian version of an emotional intelligence (EI) questionnaire and answer a vocabulary achievement test. The EI questionnaire consis...

the present study is a research which explores the relationship between introversion/extroversion and the use of vocabulary learning strategies. the participants were 80 male and female efl students of university of sistan and baluchestan who had studied efl at the university for at least two years and were randomly selected. the participants were selected after excluding those who got l scores...