the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

The importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) because non-English majors who require reading English texts in their fields of study have to expand their English vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary ESL/EFL learners. Since academic vocabulary instruction in Iranian universities is realized through the use of Gene...

Analysis Using Web Tools Tomofumi NAKANO and Yukie KOYAMA Nagoya Institute of Technology Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 Japan {nakano, koyama}@center.nitech.ac.jp Abstract. This study includes an original corpus of engineering journals and is part of the series of E-Learning & English for Specific Purposes (ESP) researches . Purposes (ESP) researches that includes an original corpus of e...

The expression of doubt and certainty is crucial in academic writing where the authors have to distinguish opinion from fact and evaluate their assertions in acceptable and persuasive ways. Hedges and boosters are two strategies used for this purpose. Despite their importance in academic writing, we know little about how they are used in different disciplines and genres and how foreign language...

EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering 08/200712/2012 (expected) Thesis: Nonlinear Compensation and Heterogeneous Data Modeling for Robust Speech Recognition. Thesis adviser: Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang Tsinghua University Beijing, China M.S. in Electronic Engineering 09/1998-07/2001 Thesis: Design and Implementation a Corpus-Ba...

after development of a great concern (in last decade) about the adequacy and fidelity of the undergraduate educational program of electrical engineering in the electrical engineering department of sharif university of technology, a committee was assigned in 2004, to identify the shortcomings of the program and initiate a dynamic, restructured program to satisfy the educational requirement of a ...

this article deals with the engineering education of mechatronic in the different universities of canada, while every educational aspect of their curriculum is described in detail. this study shows that the desing of any educational program to some extend depends on the department where the program is carried out and the cooperation and help of the other departments. it seems that gradually thi...

This paper describes recent work towards development of new corpora and tools for Turkish speech research. This effort represents an on-going collaboration between the Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR) at the University of Colorado and the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU). A new text corpus developed from Turkish newspapers’ text is de...