Most current approaches for robot control do not make use of language and ignore neural learning. However, our robot control approach uses language instruction and draws from the concepts of regional distributed modularity, mirror neuron theory and neural assemblies. We describe a self-organising model that clusters action verbs into different locations of the output layer dependent on the body...

Abstract The present study intended, firstly, to investigate the effect of web-integrated instruction on self-regulated learning ability in EFL writing, and secondly, to compare and contrast the effects of paper-based feedback and web-assisted feedback on the self-regulated learning ability. To this end, a quasi-experimental design was applied for both cases. In line with the first objective, ...

As a program executes, some computations are performed over and over again. These redundant computations increase the program’s execution time since they require multiple cycles to execute and because they consume limited processor resources. To minimize the performance degradation that redundant computations have on the processor, we propose using Instruction Precomputation hardware to dynamic...

Consider the problem of the design of a combinational circuit with A inputs and B outputs, where each of the output variables is given as a Boolean function of the input variables. Such a circuit might be part of the control unit of a digital computer, where the A inputs are the operation code of an instruction, and the B outputs are the signals which directly control the opening and closing of...

Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...

Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...

indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving efl learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics brown (2001). accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...