Keeping pace with the continuous changes and innovations in the field of English language teaching is considered to be a necessity for the quality of teachers' teaching. There are numerous approaches to teacher development, among which self-initiated development stands as one of the noticeable trends. Although teacher development is crucial for the quality of education, it appears that there ar...

The critical role and effect of teacher assessment in ELT has been ratified by researchers among whom are Darling-Hammond (2000); Knox (2002); Bailey (2006); Davison & Cummins (2007); and Blum (2009).Taking this issue into account, this exploratory study seeks to investigate the underlying criteria of both recruiting and assessing in-service EFL teachers in private language institutes of Iran. ...

Web service has gained its popularity in the past decade and emerged as a great impact on both industrial and research. The visionary promise of delivering dynamic creation of loosely coupled information system is almost into reality. This vision is called services computing. One of the wide implementations of Web services is language service. The number of language service available on the Web...

Glossary CAN: Content-Adressable Network DHT: Distributed Hash Table JSON: JavaScript Object Notation NAICS: North American Industrial Classification System OWL-S: Ontology Web Language for Services REST: Representational State Transfer SA-WSDL: Semantically Annotated WSDL SA-REST: Semantic Annotation of Web Resources SIC: Standard Industrial Classification SML: Service Modeling Language SOA: S...