This paper proposes ShowFace, a streaming structure for personalized face animation. This structure extends (and complies with) MPEG-4 face animation by defining image transformations required for certain facial movements, and also by providing a higher level Face Modeling Language (FML) for modeling and control purposes. The proposed framework consists of components for parsing the input scrip...

the field of elt is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (cda). accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of cda instruction on iranian efl learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. to fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample toefl was primarily p...

toefl ibt has turned recently heads to the impacts language tests can have on language learning. since error analysis-based instruction has gained a new life with the advent of the computer analysis of the learner’s language, the researchers of this study embarked on examining a sample of integrated and independent writing tasks of 45 iranian toefl ibt candidates in order to identify and classi...

Intertextuality is an important academic writing ability when using others’ ideas efficiently and is tanta- mount to failing in the fulfillment of the research part of MA programs if improperly utilized. This study was thus intended to delve into university teachers’ judgment of what they may count as proper or im- proper intertextuality and the reas...

Adolescence is an important period for the formation of health behaviors. However, data showed that more than 20% adolescents in Indonesia ever carried out risky behaviors towards their health. The majority include smoking, drinking alcohol, having premarital sex and drug abuse. aim study was to determine effectiveness journaling technique interventions (writing journals) positive adolescents. ...

Background: Given the strong influence of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors on musculoskeletal symptoms andlimitations it’s important that both scientific and lay writing use the most positive, hopeful, and adaptive words andconcepts consistent with medical evidence. The use of words that might reinforce misconceptions about preferencesensitiveconditions (particularly those associated with age)...

this study investigated the impact of using the technique of self-monitoring on non-academic efl learners’ composition writing. fifty female students studying english at navid english institute in shiraz, iran were chosen based on the results of a proficiency test. they were all 16-20 years old and were intermediate learners of english who were divided into two control and experimental groups a...

A central mission of writing centers is to help writers in all disciplines, at all levels of proficiency, learn how to improve their writing skills. The primary tool for achieving this goal is the writing conference, in which a writer receives personal attention from a trained tutor who works with the writer on a specific piece of writing. Conferences, as Kenneth Bruffee suggested in his semina...