The relationship between locus of control and course completion in an adult basic education program was investigated. Instruction was individualized; each learner was tutored by an adult volunteer. Early in their program 62 adult learners responded to an 11-item modification of the Rotter I-E Scale. Those learners who completed the program were significantly more internally controlled than thos...

This study aimed at proposing a framework based on Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) for addressing foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA) among Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The effectiveness of the framework in reducing the levels of FLLA among language learners was investigated when implemented by a therapist as well as by learners independently. To this end, 3...

Abstract The large majority of previous work on human-robot conversations in a second language has been performed with human wizard-of-Oz. reasons are that automatic speech recognition non-native conversational is considered to be unreliable and the dialogue management task selecting robot utterances adequate at given turn complex social conversations. This study therefore investigates if robot...

The functioning of a protein in biological reactions crucially depends on its threedimensional structure. Prediction of the three-dimensional structure of a protein (tertiary structure) from its amino acid sequence (primary structure) is considered as a challenging task for bioinformatics and molecular biology. Recently, due to tremendous advances in the pattern recognition field, there has bee...

with the help of a forward-chaining inference engine to find out about a specific item (object) of the domain of instruction. As the questioning process is bidirectional ("open" questions can be asked by the system as well as by the learner), DOLE is more targeted at advanced and adult learners than at young learners. The ultimate goal is to use the DOLE system concept as a part of a virtual co...

There is growing interest in learners’ cognitive capacities to process a second language (L2) at first exposure to the target language. Evidence suggests that L2 learners are capable of processing novel words by exploiting phonological information from their first language (L1). Hearing adult learners of a sign language, however, cannot fall back on their L1 to process novel signs because the m...