the development of the information and communication technology is considered as an effective step that has considerably changed in the educational goals, plans, and teaching procedures and improved educational effectiveness.  introducing ‘the software for assessing and teaching core vocabularies to non-persian speakers’, the present study aims to accentuate the role of technology in the educat...

this study aimed at examining the relationship between emotional intelligence (ei) and learning english language vocabulary. the male (n= 119) and female (n= 98) participants who were randomly selected from high schools in zanjan province were asked to complete a persian version of an emotional intelligence (ei) questionnaire and answer a vocabulary achievement test. the ei questionnaire consis...

A controlled study of vocabulary learning from reading compared three types of mobile technology: paper books, ebooks with dictionaries, and e-books with adaptive software for vocabulary learning. The results showed small English vocabulary gains among Japanese students for all three conditions, with no significant difference between the technologies. The students reported that they found the p...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of morphology instruction through semantic mapping on vocabulary learning of iranian intermediate efl learners. to do so, 50 out of 70 students were se-lected from one english language institute by administrating a pet test. then, they were assigned into two groups randomly as experimental and control groups. a pretest (teacher made) was admin...

This study aimed at investigating the effect of Dynamic Assessment on vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. Although it is widely acknowledged that this type of assessment can prove to be very effective for different aspects of language instruction, not much consideration has been given to DA of vocabulary. This study was an attempt to determine if DA procedures would improve students’ v...

the present study is an attempt to contribute to the l2 acquisition research through finding an appropriate answer to the question usually asked by both language teachers and learners, namely how to learn vocabulary and how to retain meanings in memory over time. we have chosen to discover the effects of two major types of productive exercises, writing and oral production exercises, on the reme...

Traditional and modern vocabulary instruction techniques have been introduced in the past few decades to improve the learners’ performance in reading comprehension. Semantic mapping, which entails drawing learners’ attention to the interrelationships among lexical items through graphic organizers, is claimed to enhance vocabulary learning significantly. However, whether this technique suits all...

Acquiring vocabulary in L2 is rather a difficult and demanding process and most of the language learners wish to know which vocabulary learning method and/or activity is more beneficial or even the best one; however, the responses to this question vary and there is no clear-cut answer though there are some various suggestions and conclusions drawn from the studies related to vocabulary acquisit...

In this paper, we present an architecture for software agents that enables them to learn vocabulary through the observation of each other bodies and actions. Besides sensors, effectors, and action control, the architecture provides the equivalent of a body with visual appearance. The agent soft visual appearance is designed to be seen by other software agents, not by people. The paper describes...