Montreal high school students studying French as a second language completed a battery of tests including measures of linguistic aptitude. verbal intelligence, and various attitudinal and motivational characteristics. Analysis of the intercorrelations of these tests yielded two orthogonal factors equally related to ratings of achievement in French: a linguistic aptitude and a "motivational" fac...

apart from the linguistic ability in translation which has constantly been the focus of scholars in the past decades, many recent arguments and research on translation quality point to the indispensable effect of mental and cognitive aspects of translator on his translation performance. in this paper we sought to implement this psychological approach and to investigate the probable relationship...

Robust gender effect has been reported in Multiple Intelligences (MI)-EFL studies across cultures. Nevertheless, research results vary in effect size, Intelligence type, overall estimation etc. The variance is mainly explained in terms of socio-cultural factors. However, although manifold MI inventories and scales are used in studies, the role of the MI-test type in creating variance has not be...

The second half of the twentieth century can be called the age of individualization when individual values and differences are recognized and respected. Intelligence is among the various aspects of individual differences which affect education and language learning. As such, the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between Multiple Intelligence and Reading Comprehension Abiliti...

The use of knowledge-based systems can represent an efficient approach for system management, providing automatic control strategies with Artificial Intelligence capabilities. By means of Artificial Intelligence, the system is capable of assessing, diagnosing and suggesting the best operation mode. One important Artificial Intelligence tool for automatic control is the use of fuzzy logic contro...