Background Under the guideline of Circular Letter LCCE/153, TTA has formed evaluation group (TTA EG) to test, said, IP-OFDMA for the 6th radio interface of IMT-2000. TTA would like to share the progress of evaluation to other groups and proponents and to clarify the questions in the relevant ITU-R Documents and comments provided by the Proponents in the contributions, 8F/1065 and 1079r1. We hav...

Abstract Questions, and more specifically authentic questions, are at the core of dialogue-based learning teaching. However, what is a question, how can it be authentic? This paper addresses this problem by analyzing distinct dimensions showing their pragmatic nature interwoven with syntactic semantic one, grasped only considering dialogical functions. Questions maintained to proposals differen...

This version has a lot of inserted Comments to indicate what must be done and what will be in here when this is completed. [These Comments also note open questions, where possible, so for suggested results not noted as open one may assume the proofs are known, even if not yet included.] This was originally intended as a revised version of what became [5] before publication, then became comments...

We thank referee for her/his encouraging comments and numerous very useful recommendations. We have carefully analyzed the reviewer comments and tried to address all her/his questions and comments in the revised manuscript and in the present response. Detailed explanations are given below. 1. English. As suggested by the referee we have put a significant effort in improving level of English in ...

We analyze user behavior on two music distribution websites, SoundCloud.com and Last.fm, using a computer-mediated discourse analysis approach. The broad goal is to infer patterns of use that can inform the development of system/site designs to facilitate communication among online users. The specific goal is to analyze the actions users perform through comments posted to the sites. Based on a ...

Lawrie Balfour, Benjamin Hertzberg, Jack Knight and Cara Wong offer comments on my book, The Imperative of Integration, that raise critically important questions about the ways a pragmatist methodology should treat ideals in non-ideal theory. In this article, I reply to their comments as well as provide some reflections on the proper level of abstraction in non-ideal theory and on what kinds of...

Chapelle (2003) proposed three general types of input enhancement that help L2 learners “acquire features the linguistic they are exposed to during course reading or listening for meaning” (p. 40): salience, modification, and elaboration. In 2010, Cárdenas-Claros Gruba argued Chapelle’s different “can be have been operationalized through options” primarily utilized in teaching reading, listenin...