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Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleDemotivating Factors for English Language Learning Among University StudentsReyhaneh Ghadirzadeh, Fariba Pourabolfathe Hashtroudi, Omid ShokriProblem statement: Demotivation is a relatively new issue in the field of second/foreign Language (L2) learning motivation. Recognizing and removing barriers can have a marked effect on motivation and attention to learning in general and ESL/EFL learning in particular. Demotivating factors are essential factors which negatively influence the learner’s attitudes and behaviors and hence lead to undesired learning outcomes. The … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 21 Feb 2012 · 11,940 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleFrom &#34Foreign&#34 Language Education to Plurilingualism: Challenges for Language Education Policy in a Multilingual JapanTeja OstheiderProblem statement: With a 41% increase in foreign residents over the last 10 years, the long-neglected issue of domestic multiculturalism and multilingualism cannot be ignored anymore in Japan. Nevertheless, there is still a deep gap between common images created by mass media and education regarding “internationalization” or “globalization” and the actual condition of Japan as a migrant country. By discussing … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 18 Feb 2012 · 8,656 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleRule Based Shallow Parser for Arabic LanguageMona Ali Mohammed, Nazlia OmarProblem statement: One of language processing approaches that compute a basic analysis of sentence structure rather than attempting full syntactic analysis is shallow syntactic parsing. It is an analysis of a sentence which identifies the constituents (noun groups, verb groups, prepositional groups), but does not specify their internal structure, nor their role in the main sentence. The only technique used … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 10 · 4 Aug 2011 · 7,187 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleEffects of Teaching Literature on Culture Learning in the Language ClassroomChittra Muthusamy, Rasaya Marimuthu, Elangkeeran SabapathyProblem statement: The role of literature in enhancing readers’ cultural understanding in the language classroom was explored. It was a part of an extensive research which focused mainly on language learning and creativity. It is argued that the interface of language, literature and culture are at the forefront of present-day language and literature learning and this facilitates inter-racial, intra-racial and … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 8 · 19 Jul 2011 · 7,779 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAcoustic Model Adaptation for Indonesian Language Utterance Training SystemLinda Indrayanti, Yoshifumi Chisaki, Tsuyoshi UsagawaProblem statement: In order to build an utterance training system for Indonesian language, a speech recognition system designed for Indonesian is necessary. However, the system hardly works well due to the pronunciation variants of non-native utterances may lead to substitution/deletion error. This research investigated the pronunciation variant and proposes acoustic model adaptation to improve performance of the system. Approach: The … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 11 · 23 Oct 2010 · 7,173 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleComparing Reading Processing Strategies of Second Language ReadersParilah M. Shah, Aminuddin Yusof, Suhana M. Lip et al.Problem statement: The message that a writer tries to convey in a text would be subjected to several interpretations by readers. Apparently, reading is a complex process of getting input. A well-known researcher offers two views of reading: (i) reading is a process of decoding written symbols and (ii) reading is a process of reconstructing meaning. It has also been … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2010 · 7,912 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA New Question Answering System for the Arabic LanguageGhassan Kanaan, Awni Hammouri, Riyad Al-Shalabi, Majdi SwalhaWe depict the architecture of a question answering system and methodically evaluate contributions of different system components to accuracy. The system differs from most question answering systems in its dependency on data redundancy rather than complicated linguistic analyses of either questions or contender answers. Because a wrong answer is often worse than no answer. A Question Answering (QA) system is … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2009 · 7,926 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleTeaching Strategies and Class Practices of the Teachers who Teach Turkish as a Foreign Language (A Qualitative Research)Ali GocerProblem statement: In the globalizing world, second language/foreign language has gained a great importance. The importance of the foreign language teaching has increased in our time in which knowing a foreign language has deviated from being a specialty and become a feature that everyone must have. For that purpose, teachers must know the characteristics of the learners very well and … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2008 · 7,775 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAn Entropy Based Method for Removing Web Query Ambiguity in Hindi LanguageS. K. Dwivedi, P. RastogiProblem statement: WSD is core problem of many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks; information retrieval is one of them. Information Retrieval in Hindi language also faces the similar problem of WSD. Hindi language is spoken by the major population in India. Natives from the rural area come across the setback of Hindi language information retrieval. WSD is one of them. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2008 · 6,970 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAnimation of Natural Language Specifications of Authentication ProtocolsMabroka A. Mayouf, Zarina ShukurProblem Statement: A few visualization tools have been created for protocol design and analysis. Although these tools provide an environment for designing security protocols, each one has its own protocol definition language (its also called informal specification language). The problem is that the user should understand the language which related to the used tool in order to define an exist … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2008 · 6,736 accessesView PDFCite