The Bollettino del CILEA comes to n° 100. This goal has been reached slightly after 30 years activity of the Consortium achieved on July the 1st 2005. The publication of the second hundred would like to get new ambitious targets…

Searching for information in databases or on the world wide web to enhance our knowledge has become an everyday task. The internet is a major source of information for education. When we want to make new material available in digital…

Although current literature on learning styles shows that matching a teacher’s instructional style with the learning styles of students affects performance in a classroom environment, little is known about the influence of learning styles in online interaction. The paper argues…

Introduction: The use of computer-generated 3-dimensional (3-D) anatomical models to teach anatomy has proliferated. However, there is little evidence that these models are educationally effective. The purpose of this study was to test the educational effectiveness of a computer-generated 3-D…

La mayoría de los sistemas de Vídeo bajo Demanda (VoD, Video on Demand) fueron diseñados para trabajar en redes dedicadas. Sin embargo, hay algunos sistemas que proveen servicio de VoD en redes de mejor esfuerzo y no dedicadas, pero ellos…

This article explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s), in particular, deixis and…

El macizo del Tagant, en la República Islámica de
Mauritania, alberga, a lo largo de una red interconectada de humedales, las últimas poblaciones de cocodrilo del desierto Crocodylus niloticus
suchus), que hasta muy poco tiempo se consideraban extintas. Estas poblaciones…

This article examines the role of lexical morphology in pedagogical grammars of Spanish as a way
to increase knowledge of vocabulary. We review the ways in which derivation and compounding are
introduced in Spanish textbooks and which present different types…

This paper describes the development of an image retrieval
system that combines probabilistic and ontological information1. The
process is divided in two different stages: indexing and retrieval. Three
information flows have been created with different kind of information
each one:…

This study explored the relationship between vocabulary size (i.e., breadth of knowledge), depth of vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension of Chinese-speaking ESL (English as a second language) university students in Canada. Both aspects of vocabulary knowledge, breadth and depth, continue…