This study explores the effect of online annotations via Interactive White Boards (IWBs) on reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on Oxford Placement Test (2014).Then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...

Background: Cooperative learning as an educational approach plays a crucial role in English as a second/foreign language education. The effective role of cooperative learning seems to be so dominant that it deserves further investigation. Objectives: This study aimed at investigating the impact of cooperative learning strategies on reading comprehension and vocabulary learning of nursing stude...

This note describes a tentative solution to the problem of mixed language texts in TTS applications. The multilanguage modular architecture of Loquendo TTS has been exploited to provide a range of user options, allowing to guess the language of paragraphs/phrase/words and to switch between voices in different languages, or between foreign accents of the same voice. This note focuses on a Phonem...

The aim of this research was to explore the effect flipped classroom on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ reading skill and anxiety. For purpose, sample 44 Iranian EFL learners recruited randomly assigned group (N =23) non-flipped =21). Using quasi-experimental design, researchers employed an experimental that received instruction control were instructed based regular method for per...