background and purpose: a 3-unit course is dedicated to general language in medical universities and the vocabulary and text structure of the courses have usually no relation to medical language. we examine whether teaching general language will be as effective as medical language as assessed through recall of general and medical vocabulary and text structure knowledge. methods: an experimental...

the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

The paper proposes a formulation of context coherency and uses it to generate semantically meaningful groupings by discovering salient image regions and their contexts. The proposed framework consists of four stages. First, a visual vocabulary from a set of labelled training images is learnt. Second, a context space which is inspired by Hyperspace Analogue to Language model is constructed using...

In language learning, speaking becomes the evidence of students’ competence that is learnt. However, ability can be inhibited by several problems are faced such as lack confidence, vocabulary and grammar, inappropriate teaching strategy. this era, developments information technology (IT) solution those problems. The development seems to have many positive effects on education. Technology provid...

We propose the use of motor vocabulary, that express a robot’s specific motor capabilities, for topological mapbuilding and navigation. First, the motor vocabulary is created automatically through an imitation behaviour where the robot learns about its own motor repertoire, by following a tutor and associating its own motion perception to motor words. The learnt motor representation is then use...

this study aims to compare the effects of four types of ffi on second language vocabulary learning. to do so, the study adopted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design, including five groups, each receiving a distinct treatment. the participants were 80 fourth-grade male students ranging in age from 17 to 19. before the treatment phase, the participants took a researcher-made test of vocab...

This paper proposes new hash functions for indexing local image descriptors. These functions are first applied and evaluated as a range neighbor algorithm. We show that it obtains similar results as several state of the art algorithms. In the context of near duplicate image retrieval, we integrated the proposed hash functions within a bag of words approach. Because most of the other methods use...

The REAP tutoring system provides individualized and adaptive English as a Second Language vocabulary practice. REAP can automatically personalize instruction by providing practice readings about topics that match interests as well as domain-based, cognitive objectives. While most previous research on motivation in intelligent tutoring environments has focused on increasing extrinsic motivation...

Informatics standards and controlled vocabularies are essential for allowing information technology to help exchange, manage, interpret and compare large data collections. In a rapidly evolving field, the challenge is to work out how best to describe, but not prescribe, the use of these technologies and methods. A Metabolomics Standards Workshop was held by the US National Institutes of Health ...