this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

Accessing, navigating and browsing multimedia documents from a digital library should be as easy as reading and working with textbooks. However, common user interfaces for replay of multimedia data often assume a more passive, consuming attitude of the user. To be useful, techniques and features are required that allow more user interaction during replay of multimedia data, especially in a teac...

This paper summarizes the participation of UNED in the CLEF 2006 interactive task. Our goal was to measure the attitude of users towards cross-language searching when the search system provides the possibility (as an option) of searching cross-language, and when the search tasks can clearly benefit from searching in multiple languages. Our results indicate that, even in the most favorable setti...

Eliciting people's values is a central pursuit in many areas of the social sciences, including survey research, attitude research, economics, and behavior decision theory. These disciplines differ considerably in the core assumptions they make about the nature of the values that are available for elicitation. These assumptions lead to very different methodological concerns and interpretations, ...

The present study explored whether two semester overseas programs had any impact on participants’ language ability and motivation to English. ability, L2 learning attitude of 65 Japanese university students participating in semester-long abroad were measured pre departure their return. TOEIC listening reading tests used measure students’ linguistic gains, possible changes at...

The purpose of this study was to measure reading comprehension strategies when Tell Me More and Sweet English software were utilized to enhance the traditional reading comprehension practice. The study focused on evaluation of four strategies (i.e., scanning, skimming, inferencing and headline guessing) in reading comprehension in three different classes at an English language Institute in Iran...

The English-reading world has recently been offered the alpha and omega of Adorno's systematic works. Not only do Dialectic of Enlightenment and Negative Dialectics present Adorno's original programmatic evocation and his final methodological summary respectively, but the Jargon of Authenticity and Philosophy of New Music footnote these with lengthy statements on two favorite leit-motifs: the p...

Bu araştırmada Dijital ve Basılı Okumaya Yönelik Tutum Ölçeğinin Türkçeye uyarlanması amaçlanmıştır. doğrultuda öncelikle ölçeği uyarlamak için gerekli izinler alınmıştır. Gerekli alındıktan sonra ölçek uyarlama aşamalarına göre dil alan uzmanları tarafından çeviri işlemleri yapılıp geçerliliği sağlanmaya çalışılmıştır. Dil sağlanınca uygulamaya hazır hale getirilip 9-11 yaş arası 279 öğrencide...