Measuring the semantic meaning between words is an important issue because it is the basis for many applications, such as word sense disambiguation, document summarization, and so forth. Although it has been explored for several decades, most of the studies focus on improving the effectiveness of the problem, i.e., precision and recall. In this paper, we propose to address the efficiency issue,...

Assessment is considered as one of the fundamental elements in the field of foreign language acquisition. In order for communication take place, adequate number of vocabulary is needed to be known by the learners. The salient role of vocabulary in the field of foreign language acquisition resulted in the publication of several hundreds of papers and dozens of books. Due to the dominant role of ...

Most of the studies on the key word method of second/foreign language vocabulary learning have been based on the evidence from laboratory experiments and have primarily involved the use of English key words to learn the vocabularies of other languages. Furthermore, comparatively quite limited number of such studies is done in authentic classroom contexts. The present study inquired into the eff...

this article generates the first persian academic word list (pawl) which comprises the most frequently used academic vocabulary in persian academic texts. the pawl was compiled from a corpus of 927,008 running words from academic resources. two principles of range and frequency of word families guided the selection and arrangement of the word list. the corpus included seven books and one hundre...

the goal of this study was to evaluate word's in–service training of takfa project (development and use of information and communication technology plan) via ministry of jihade agricultural staff perspective. the methodological approach was survey research and the target population was one hundred (100) of staff in jihad agricultural ministry who had attended in word's in–service trai...

This study aimed to investigate whether there is any significant relationship between the readability and vocabulary profile including the most frequent words (K1 words) and academic word list (AWL) of reading passages of Four Corners series which were EFL textbooks. To determine the readability of the texts, the Flesch–Kincaid (1975) readability test was used, while the texts' academic word li...