Which Helps to Become a Better EFL Writer: Creative Tasks or Communicative Tasks?

Randomization helps to perform independent tasks reliably

This paper is about algorithms that schedule tasks to be performed in a distributed failure-prone environment, when processors communicate by message-passing, and when tasks are independent and of unit length. The processors work under synchrony and may fail by crashing. Failure patterns are imposed by adversaries. The question how the power of adversaries affects the optimality of randomized a...

SociAl Agents For Communicative Tasks

Agents which interact with humans on behalf of humans need a model of human social interaction in order to act appropriately. This paper is a brief description of such a model used by an agent to generate e-mail messages. 1. The problem There is a great deal of research in AI on multi-agent systems [Tambe et al. 1995; Etzioni, Lesh, & Segal 1993]. But there seems to be a growing need for agents...

Communicative Tasks and the Language Curriculum

Over the last 25 years the communicative task has emerged as a significant building block in the development of language curricula and also as an element for motivating process-oriented second language acquisition research. This paper reviews the influence of the communicative task on curriculum development and summarizes the research base for task-based language teaching. In the final part of ...

Randomization Helps to Perform Tasks on Processors Prone to Failures

effect of input vs. collaborative output tasks on iranian efl learners grammatical knowledge and willingness to communicate

چکیده: این مطالعه به بررسی تاثیر فعالیت های درون داد و برون داد گروهی بر روی دستور زبان انگلیسی زبان آموزان ایرانی وهمچنین به بررسی تاثیر این 2 نوع فعالیت ها بر روی تمایل به برقراری ارتباط زبان آموزان می پردازد. بر این اساس، در این مطالعه فعالیت های درون داد و برون داد گروهی در مورد 5 نوع ساختار دستوری ( (used to, too, enough, wish, and past tense طراحی و تنظیم شده است. به منظور دستیابی به این...