This study seeks to explore five 6 th grade EFL learners' major writing problems by analyzing the nature and distribution of their writing errors and it also investigates factors that cause errors in their writing in English through email communication. This study examined EFL learners’ writing samples and followed taxonomy: grammatical, lexical, semantic, mechanics, and word order types of err...

An extremely rare case of papillary carcinoma is described arising in a submental-intralingual thyroglossal duct cyst. A 27-year-old male presented with a painless swelling in the submental region extending to the tongue which had gradually been increasing in size over the last three months. Upon examination of the neck, a tender right paramedian mass was found in the submental region just abov...

This paper describes the data collection and parallel corpus compilation activities carried out in the FP7 EU-funded SUMAT project. This project aims to develop an online subtitle translation service for nine European languages combined into 14 different language pairs. This data provides bilingual and monolingual training data for statistical machine translation engines which will semi-automat...

This paper presents the virtual speech cuer built in the context of the ARTUS project aiming at watermarking hand and face gestures of a virtual animated agent in a broadcasted audiovisual sequence. For deaf televiewers that master cued speech, the animated agent can be then superimposed on demand and at the reception on the original broadcast as an alternative to subtitling. The paper presents...

Speaking as an initial goal in language teaching and learning has relationships with many variables including listening, reading, writing, knowledge of vocabulary as well as grammar. The present study mainly aims at examining the relationship between translations and speaking fluency. For this purpose and following an experimental design, three groups of Iranian advanced EFL learners were...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine intralingual (IL) and submucosal (SM) delivery offlumazenil as viable alternatives to immediate intravenous (IV) administration for reversing benzodiazepine sedation in an animal model. METHODS A dog animal model was chosen based upon comparable body weight to children (12-17 kg) and the ease of oral access in this species. Research design was ...

Being able to propose a taxonomy of translation techniques has been long-standing aspiration theorists. By building on previous proposals, this paper presents the HispaTAV typology (ToT), new list specifically designed for subtitling trainees. The aim proposal is increase students’ awareness variety possible solutions translate segments source text, and promote creativity, key factor in develop...