Software repositories that provide a basis for software comprehension or reengineering tools usually have to represent a huge number of documents of di erent types bound into a web of many kinds of relationships. The exibility and the structural properties of a software repository are crucial for its use. This paper presents a repository approach that allows to set up, ll and update a software ...

Attraction interference in language comprehension and production may be as a result of common or different processes. In the present paper, we investigate attraction interference during language comprehension, focusing on the contexts in which interference arises and the time-course of these effects. Using evidence from event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and sentence judgment times, we show ...

This contribution presents the use of Fuzzy Case-Based Reasoning methods for modelling student’s Historical Text Comprehension (F-CBRDHTC). The proposed fuzzyCase-Based Reasoning synergism handles the uncertainty in the acquisition of expert’s knowledge regarding student’s observable behaviour during Historical Text Comprehension (HTC). It integrates the right balance between expert’s knowledge...

Dependence on computers and internet has given birth to digital literacy. However, research into its influences on the reading process is still in its infancy. To fill the gap, this study was designed to investigate the ways in which text presentation mode (paper vs. digital) affects reading comprehension, as well as reading attitudes. To this end, a sample of 30 male and female English major s...

Abstract The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of IT system-based instruction vs. traditional instruction of teaching English on Iranian low-intermediate EFL learners’ reading comprehension ability in a smart school in Tonekabon, Mazandaran, Iran. To collect the data, 60 low-intermediate high school learners took part in the study. As to the homogeneity of the participants,...