University students used a set of existing and purpose-built on-line tools for vocabulary learning in an experimental ESL course. The resources included concordance, dictionary, cloze-builder, hypertext, and a database with interactive self-quizzing feature (all freely available at www.lextutor.ca). The vocabulary targeted for learning consisted of (a) Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List, a lis...

Reading contributes to vocabulary development and is regarded as an efficient pedagogical approach learning. Through reading, learners are exposed new words in their rightful context of use. This study investigates the effects input enhancements on incidental academic word learning through reading English texts among a Second Language (ESL) undergraduates. The compares different conditions, glo...

hapax legomenon (pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, pl. hapaxes), is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. the related terms, dis legomenon, tris legomenon, and tetrakis legomenon respectively refer to double, triple, or quadruple occurrences, but are far less commonly u...

A computational system that evaluates creativity needs guidance on what creativity actually is. It is by no means straightforward to provide a computer with a formal definition of creativity; no such definition yet exists and viewpoints in creativity literature vary as to what the key components of creativity are considered to be. This work combines several viewpoints for a more general consens...

Wide acceptance of inexpensive writing tablets with high functionality motivates the development of individualized, adaptive on-line recognition of cursive script. We demonstrate a lexical algorithm based on bigram matches. The solution we propose is to (i) Generate a match list by partial-word matching against a reference list in the owner's script. (ii) Identify each unknown word by eliminati...

This study addressed two research questions regarding academic words used in the Corpus of Pakistani English Newspaper Articles (COPENA).Firstly it asked about frequently corpus Newspaper, Secondly was asked, to what extent authors or editor use Academic newspaper as compared with Coxhead 570 (AWL). Total 414435 running taken from online Newspaper; E. dawn and The Nation. computer software ANTC...

This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students. Fifty fourth-year students majoring in English completed a test, Word Associates Test (WAT), based on Academic List (AWL). Then, students’ grade point averages (GPAs) were obtained as measure success. Furthermore, learning strategy (V...

Patients seeking deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for Parkinson's disease (PD) typically undergo neuropsychological assessment to determine candidacy for surgery, with poor memory performance interpreted as a contraindication. Patients with PD may exhibit worse memory for word lists than for stories due to the lack of inherent organization in a list of unrelated words. Unfortunately, word l...

Four experiments were performed to explore a recognition decrement that is associated with the recognition of a word from a short list. The stimulus material for demonstrating the phenomenon was a list of words of different syntactic types. A word from the list was recognized less well following a decision that a word of the same type had occurred in the list than following a decision that such...