this study examined the effects of cooperative learning techniques (clt) on vocabulary achievement of reflective/impulsive iranian efl learners. from among 130 students at fajr institute in dehdasht, kohkiloyeh and boyer ahmad province, iran, 90 participants were selected based on their performance on the oxford placement test (opt). the participants were then divided into two experimental grou...

abstract the present study was carried out to investigate the effect of short stories on students’ reading comprehension, vocabulary power and attitude towards the skill and the new instructional materials. the participants of the study were 120 grade 9 students of dilla secondary and preparatory school. in order to gather data for the study, pre- and posttest of reading comprehension, pre and ...

Ontologies as well as classification systems and thesauri consist of concepts and the paradigmatic semantic relations between them. Paradigmatic relations are document-independent relations used to model a domain of interest; in contrast to syntagmatic relations, which are merely based on the co-occurrence of concepts within single documents (Stock & Stock, 2008, pp. 68-70). Paradigmatic relati...

In this paper we present our work on the usage of lexical resources for the Machine Translation English and Malayalam. We describe a comparative performance between different Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems on top of phrase based SMT system as baseline. We explore different ways of utilizing lexical resources to improve the quality of English Malayalam statistical machine translat...