Response to Intervention in first-grade writing instruction: a large-scale feasibility study

Writing Large - Scale Parallel

Large-scale parallel geophysical algorithms in Java: a feasibility study

Java is often accused of being too slow for serious programming, especially for scienti c problem solving. However, we found that for a large-scale geophysical application, Java code compiled with current just-intime compilers runs slower than Fortran by a factor of at most four, on both a shared-memory parallel machine (SGI Origin2000) and a distributed-memory parallel machine (IBM SP/2). The ...

formulaic writing: a novel approach to writing instruction

the present study seeks to introduce and investigate an approach to teaching writing in the efl classroom which draws heavily on the use of formulaic expressions. in contrast to its predecessors, this approach includes both the application of process writing techniques and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary into its syllabus. two groups of 30 efl learners participated in this study. one gro...

effects of first language on second language writing-a preliminary contrastive rhetoric study of farsi and english

to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

the relationship among efl learners’ autonomy, first language essay writing tasks and second language essay writing tasks in task/content based language instruction

the ability of composing a coherent and extended piece of writing in second language is considered as a fundamental factor to convey information and ideas of learners through the academic issues. although learners may achieve a perfect academic writing skill through assigning the l2 tasks in content based instruction, but demonstration of their abilities may be related to their ability in l1 es...