Google Docs and EtherPad are Web 2.0 tools providing opportunity for multiple users to work online on the same document consecutively or simultaneously. Over the last few years a number of research papers on the use of these collaborative tools in a teaching and learning environment have been published. This work builds on that of Brodahl, Hadjerrouit, and Hansen (2011) expanding its case study...

The development of adapted programming environments is mandatory in order to deliver reflective languages to real world users. It is generally assumed that reflection aids in the development of programming environments. However, its use may also give rise to certain difficulties. For example, it prevents programming tools from making strong assumptions about language structure and semantic. Our...

The researchers in this study aimed to demonstrate how impossible it could be for a language teacher to take fixed, systematic routes of action in recent Action Research designs.  This was instantiated in an L2 (here, English) 'essay writing' course among some Persian speaker university students majoring in Hygiene Sciences (Family and Environment). Evidences regarding individualistic progress ...

We describe our submissions to the WMT11 shared MT evaluation task: MTeRater and MTeRater-Plus. Both are machine-learned metrics that use features from e-rater R ©, an automated essay scoring engine designed to assess writing proficiency. Despite using only features from e-rater and without comparing to translations, MTeRater achieves a sentencelevel correlation with human rankings equivalent t...

This report presents the findings of a research project funded by and carried out under the auspices of the Graduate Record Examinations Board Researchers are encouraged to express freely their professional judgment. Therefore, points of view or opinions stated in Graduate Record Examinations Board Reports do not necessarily represent official Graduate Record Examinations Board position or poli...

This essay provides a personal and reflective account of the process adapting PhD thesis, which was written for panel examiners to demonstrate academic competence, monograph, in simple terms is wide audience including students academics with aim communicating ideas. It hoped that this article insight postdoctoral researchers who may be thinking about submitting proposal publisher adaptation the...

Each "Communication Corner" essay is self-contained; however, they build on each other. For best results, before reading this and doing the exercise, go to first "How an Ugly Duckling Became a Swan," then read succeeding essay. This based article originally published in 2012. Although aimed specifically at journalists, it contains considerable good advice for all expository (non-fiction) writer...

From 2010 to 2020, there is a recorded increase in graduate program enrollment the United States (Zhou & Gao, 2021). The latest annual survey of from Council Graduate Schools documented an 20.4% among Latinx students, 16.7% Asian 16% Black/African American 8.8% Indian/Alaska Native and 1.7% Hawaiians/other Pacific Islanders students According that survey, traditionally underrepresented groups i...