The word tradition has a very specific meaning in linguistics: the passing down of a text, which may have been completed or corrected by different copyists at different times, when the concept of authorship was not the same as it is today. When reading an ancient text the word tradition must be in the reader's mind. To discuss one of the problems an ancient text poses to its modern readers, thi...

purpose : design and establishment of persian near reading card for clinical use and practice methods : at first, card dimension, word and character size and specifications were calculated. then, english near reading card, richmond product inc, was considered as a template. context and syntax contribute to reading accuracy and efficacy of the richmond card was considered for designed persian ca...

ABSTRACf: Student petitions for alternative demonstrations of competency in academic writing led to the investigation of the use of"mediated texts" as a classroom practice which meets the requirements of "accommodation" as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This paper defines mediated texts, describes case studies which use these texts with deaf college students who are basic...

Academic reading and writing abilities are prerequisites to success in postgraduate programs. These should be domains of competence particular for students applied linguistics, whose studies future performance as teachers require insight into these skills. A questionnaire was administered 194 students, who assessed their own academic In addition, open-ended questions added the interviews with 1...

We describe the VTeX Language Editing Dataset of Academic Texts (LEDAT), a dataset of text extracts from scientific papers that were edited by professional native English language editors at VTeX. The goal of the LEDAT is to provide a large data resource for the development of language evaluation and grammar error correction systems for the scientific community. We describe the data collection ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore roles of electronic texts (e-texts) in research enquiry in literary and historical studies, and to deepen the understanding of the nature of scholars’ engagement with e-texts as primary materials. The study includes an investigation of references to e-texts and discussions about researchers’ citation practices in interviews. Design/methodology/a...