with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...

In recent years, many efforts have been done to design ontology learning methods and automate ontology construction process. The ontology construction process is a time-consuming and costly procedure for almost all domains/applications, so automating this process is a solution to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck in information systems and reduce the construction cost. In this artic...

Background and Aim: In processing large data, scientists have to perform the tedious task of analyzing hefty bulk of data. Machine learning techniques are a potential solution to this problem. In citizen science, human and artificial intelligence may be unified to facilitate this effort. Considering the ambiguities in machine performance and management of user-generated data, this paper aims to...

vocabulary as a major component of language learning has been the object of numerous studies each of which has its own contribution to the field. finding the best way of learning the words deeply and extensively is the common objective of most of those studies. however, one effective way for achieving this goal is somehow neglected in the field. using a variety of activities such as games can r...

  Background : The hidden curriculum has great impact on students' learning. The present study was conducted on Nursing and Midwifery students to determine their experience with the hidden curriculum. Materials and methods : It was a combined survey achieved in two stages on Nursing and Midwifery students. During the first stage, a free interview was carried out to determine their attitudes tow...