the purpose of the present study was to identify any significant relationship between critical thinking ability, l2 vocabulary knowledge, and l2 vocabulary learning strategies of iranian efl learners. to this aim, the productive vocabulary levels test was administered to measure the learner’s l2 vocabulary knowledge and observe homogeneity in terms of vocabulary knowledge. at the second stage, ...

In this paper, we examine the lexical profile of literary academic articles with a view to determining how they differ from research in other disciplines and vocabulary level complexity affect reading comprehension, particularly for non-native speakers English. For purpose, corpus 110 reputable journals was compiled compared against two corpora featuring same number articles: one consisting Sci...

abstract the present study aims at analyzing efl learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. a mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. in the qualitative analysis, iranian efl learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for voca...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of blended learning and multimedia software on iranian esp students' vocabulary learning. to this end, 120 iranian esp learners were assigned to two groups: the experimental and control groups. the experimental group received instructions through multimedia software while the control group received traditional instructions. the data were c...

The Core Language Engine (CLE) is a domain independent system for translating natural language (English) sentences into formal representations of their literal meanings which are capable of supporting reasoning. It is designed to be used as a major component of interactive advisor systems such as interfaces to database management systems and diagnostic expert systems. The main contribution of t...

OBJECTIVE Allergy documentation and exchange are vital to ensuring patient safety. This study aims to analyze and compare various existing standard terminologies for representing allergy information. METHODS Five terminologies were identified, including the Systemized Nomenclature of Medical Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), National Drug File-Reference Terminology (NDF-RT), Medication Dictionary f...

this study aims at investigating a sexual vocabulary in qur’an, by clarriffaying ephemestic styles, adopted in “qur’an”, to refer to the taboo vocabulary, the study depends on “kashaaf” of “al zamakhshary”. the study results in the facts that sexual vocabulary, from the majority of the taboo words. these vocabularies may have close or distint meaning in relation to the taboo words. thus, the me...

most of the studies on the key word method of second/foreign language vocabulary learning have been based on the evidence from laboratory experiments and have primarily involved the use of english key words to learn the vocabularies of other languages. furthermore, comparatively quite limited number of such studies is done in authentic classroom contexts. the present study inquired into the eff...

Traditional and modern vocabulary instruction techniques have been introduced in the past few decades to improve the learners’ performance in reading comprehension. Semantic mapping, which entails drawing learners’ attention to the interrelationships among lexical items through graphic organizers, is claimed to enhance vocabulary learning significantly. However, whether this technique suits all...