The literature written about technical words instruction is little compared to its equivalent vocabulary learning. This paper aims investigate the extent which English for Specific Purposes Teachers (ESPTs) think that teaching a problematic task them in Saudi Arabian industrial college called Yanbu Industrial College (YIC). It also explores reasons behind challenges they face words. To obtain g...

In the past decade, we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the availability of online academic lecture videos. There are technical problems in the use of recorded lectures for learning: the problem of easy access to the multimedia lecture video content and the problem of finding the semantically appropriate information very quickly. The first step to a semantic lecture-browser is the segmenti...

This paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. The abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to November 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the Compleat Lexical Tutor. The output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

We present in this paper the method of English-to-Korean(E-K) transliteration and back-transliteration. In Korean technical documents, many English words are transliterated into Korean words in various forms in diverse ways. As English words and Korean transliterations are usually technical terms and proper nouns, it is hard to nd a transliteration and its variations in a dictionary. Therefore ...