this study investigates the effect of different types of subtitle on incidental vocabulary learning among iranian efl learners. to this end, 60 high school students in behbahan were selected after taking a proficiency test. the test was administered to ensure participants' homogeneity. participants were randomly assigned to three experimental groups, namely, bimodal group (a), standard gro...

this study was an attempt to investigate whether teaching critical reading strategies had any significant effect on intermediate efl learners’ vocabulary retention. to fulfill the purpose of this study, 72 male and female students within the age range of 17 to 32 years studying at farzan and farzanegan language schools in tehran at intermediate level were selected from a total number of 114 par...

I study the effect of various types and amounts of North American Business language data on the quality of the derived vocabulary, and use my findings to derive an improved ranking of the words, using only 19% of the NAB corpus. I then study the conflicting effects of increased vocabulary size on a speech recognizer’s accuracy, and use the result to pick an optimal vocabulary size. A similar an...

The present study aimed to examine the effect of three vocabulary techniques (dictionary use, etymological analysis, and glossing) on the Iranian ESP learners' vocabulary production. Forty-five university students majoring in architecture at Azad University, Anzali branch,  participated in this study. They were divided into three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one kind of treat...

To investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. Four groups received interlingual glosses and f...

Parsing is an important process of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics which is used to understand the syntax and semantics of a natural language sentences confined to the grammar. Parser is a computational system which processes input sentence according to the productions of the grammar, and builds one or more constituent structures which conform to the grammar. The...

abundantly clear though the need for effective eclectic techniques for enhancing learners’ vocabulary learning strategies may seem, in practice, language instructors, by all accounts, tend to resort to only a few obsolete ones. this review paper aims to provide a brief account of practices in vocabulary teaching and learning by focusing on the research on teaching words in context and out of co...

This review surveys research on second language vocabulary teaching and learning since1999. It first considers the distinction between incidental and intentional vocabulary learning.Although learners certainly acquire word knowledge incidentally while engaged in variouslanguage learning activities, more direct and systematic study of vocabulary is also required.There is a discussion of how word...

This vocabulary is inspired by ”A Short List of Gilbert Simondon’s Vocabulary” on the blog Fractalontology, but for most part based article and interviews in this issue Sensorium Journal. For more concepts, see: 
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Vocabulary learning is considered to be the most comprehensive and the most difficult part of language learning for all the students especially for ESP students. These students complain that vocabulary items are too many and are easily forgotten after they are learned. Mnemonic devices, a group of mental strategies, are developed to facilitate vocabulary learning and retention for such students...