This paper addresses the issues in designing the so-called ‘Controlled Korean’ for a Korean-English MT system. Controlled Language is a sublanguage of a natural language which is supposed to improve the readability and the translatability of a text. Much effort has been made to design a controlled language for major international languages such as English, German, Spanish and etc. However, litt...

crucial roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. to improve the field of foreign language teaching and learning we need to improve the qualities of efl teachers; hence, recognizing and identifying the qualities of effective efl teachers is essential. so this study attempted to investigate the characteristics of effective english language teachers ba...

The objective of this study was to assess learner autonomy English Language Teaching students in terms technical, psychological, political-philosophical, and sociocultural dimensions. 19 participants were their first semester MA ELT, which is an international program university Thailand. Among them, there 15 Chinese, three Burmese, one Thai. This employed the explanatory mixed-methods design. F...

Despite the growing body of research studies and projects related to English language teaching (ELT) for the average learner, there is still a great shortage of research addressing the foreign language learning needs of the visually impaired people. Therefore, this paper has the main objective to introduce an innovative method of teaching English to visually impaired learners by means of the ta...

In this paper we give an overview of the ILLC-UvA(Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam) submission to the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation evaluation campaign. It outlines the architecture and configuration of the novel feature we are introducing: a syntax-based model for source-side reordering via tree transduction. We have concentrated...

i am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the persian language journals with specific english-language ones. our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petroleum geology, engineering geo...