The present study was an attempt to investigate to what extent Iranian EFL teachers practice critical discourse analysis in the English language classroom during their teaching. To reach this aim, a 27-item questionnaire was designed and administered among 120 male and female Iranian English teachers in different language schools in Tehran. Following descriptive statistics through which the mea...

The method of model-based mutation testing has recently been introduced in the AVL List GmbH to automatically test the various measurement devices within the company’s portfolio. However, the initial approach of using UML as a modelling language turned out to be non-satisfying. In this paper, we introduce a textual domain-specific language for the sole purpose of modelling the behaviour of meas...

Language is an indispensable tool for human communication, and presently, the language that dominates the Internet is English. Language identification is the process of determining a predetermined language automatically from a given content (e.g. The ability to identify other languages in relation to English is highly desirable. It is the goal of this research to improve the method used to achi...

The cultural equivalence of psychological outcome measures remains a major area of investigation. The current study sought to test the factor structure and factorial invariance of the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18) with a sample of adult individuals of Mexican descent (N=923) across nativity status (U.S.- vs. foreign-born), language format (English vs. Spanish), and gender. The results sho...

there is a growing interest of clinical and epidemiological researches in the field of functional gastrointestinal disorders in our society. accordingly, validated and culturally adapted instruments are required for appropriate measurement of variables specially the quality of life. the aim of our study was the linguistic validation of the irritable bowel syndrome-quality of life questionnaire ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of the study was to compare the accuracy and diagnostic power of a parent report measure and direct language assessment for early identification of children with language delay. METHOD The parent language report and direct language measures were compared for 47 typically developing toddlers and 70 late-talking toddlers aged 24 to 26 months. One year later, language abilitie...

The measurement of the semantic relatedness has many applications in natural language processing, and many different measures have been proposed. Most of these measures use WordNet as their central resource and not domain ontologies of a particular context. We propose and evaluate a semantic relatedness measure for OWL domain ontologies that concludes to the semantic ranking of ontological, gra...