This study explored the relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and learner variables of Iranian learners of English as a foreign Language (EFL) with special reference to their personality types to examine what implications these associations have for teaching EFL. It tried to find any possible relation between vocabulary learning strategies use of Iranian EFL students and two perso...

Timely learning of specialized science vocabulary is critical for building a solid knowledge base in any scientific discipline. Lack of adequate terminology fluency is considered a major obstacle for reading comprehension of scientific texts and learning in the sciences (2). Without a doubt, students with good vocabulary knowledge master the material faster, communicate their knowledge better, ...

Annotating scientific publications with keywords and phrases is of great importance to searching, indexing, and cataloging such documents. Unlike previous studies that focused on usercentric annotation, this paper presents our investigation of various annotation characteristics on service-centric annotation. Using a large number of publicly available annotated scientific publications, we charac...

2 Kaleidoscope is the European research network shaping the scientific evolution of technology enhanced learning. It integrates the leading research teams in the field, who work collaboratively across educational, computer and social sciences to transform the quality and reach of the learning experience. Kaleidoscope fosters innovation and creativity through the development of new technologies,...

as libraries at ferdowsi university of mashhad in iran experienced the transition from traditional libraries to modern electronic libraries, knowledge management (km) was employed as an approach in managing these libraries from 1999-2004. this approach is explained under four headings: organizational knowledge, knowledge presentation, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge application and the o...

extractcontinuing education is not new for us because there  is emphasis on learning and continuing education  in our culture including literature, religion, and special  traditions in different ways  .as prophet muhammad (pbuh) says: “seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave” that  it is emphasis on continuous learning and continuous. in the holy quran  the word of “alam “repeatedly stated ...

In this paper, a learning-based paradigm for scientific chart recognition is proposed. Two kinds of chart recognition methods are presented: hidden Markov model based and neural network based method. A newly developed feature extraction method is also put forward for chart images. Experiments on three kinds of charts show that the ergodic hidden Markov models achieve a satisfactory result for c...