the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of weblog task assessment on iranian efl learners’ reading ability. to this purpose, a group of 30 english language students (both male and female) in rozaneh language institute in najafabad were selected based on their performance on the opt. the researchers tried to select a homogeneous sample in terms of age factor and proficiency level...

framed in a cognitive approach to task-supported l2 vocabulary learning, the present study used a pedagogical approach to investigate the relative effectiveness of tasks with different involvement loads on the vocabulary knowledge of iranian efl learners. the goal was to investigate the way that the construct of involvement load is related to the input hypothesis (krashen, 1985) and the output ...

This paper shows how the knowledge of a semantic interpreter can be bootstrapped for other semantic interpretation tasks. Methods are described for automatically acquiring common sense knowledge and for applying this knowledge to noun sense disambiguation. Ordinary concepts are described by several plain English sentences that are parsed and semantically interpreted. The semantic interpreted se...

This paper shows how the knowledge of a semantic interpreter can be bootstrapped for other semantic interpretation tasks. Methods are described for automatically acquiring common sense knowledge and for applying this knowledge to noun sense disambiguation. Ordinary concepts are described by several plain English sentences that are parsed and semantically interpreted. The semantic interpreted se...

Automatic interpretation of images by computers is one of the oldest and most eagerly sought objectives in the history of computing. The true power of the human mind is clearly revealed by its ability to easily perform visual interpretation tasks that are exceedingly difficult for computers. Yet the desire to use computers for these tasks persist because of computers’ ability to handle vast qua...

The investigations reported in this paper center on the process of dynamic uncertainty assessment during interpretation tasks in real domain. In particular, we are interested here in the nature of the control structure of computer programs that can support multiple interpretation and smooth transitions between them, in real time. Each step of the processing involves the interpretation of one in...

A time-sharing study used shadowing and interpretation/paraphrasing tasks to evaluate lateralization in professional interpreters individually matched to bilingual and monolingual controls. A two-step multivariate general linear model procedure was used to determine lateralized effects and extent of disruption produced by the tasks. Results revealed the monolingual group to be left lateralized ...