this study investigated the comparative effect of teaching idiomatic expressions through practicing them in conversation and paragraph writing on intermediate efl learners’ idiom learning. the participants were sorted out of a population of 134 intermediate students in zabansara language school in khorramabad based on their scores on a preliminary english test (pet) and an idiom test piloted in...

This work presents remote store programming (RSP), an instance of the reflective memory model designed to be incrementally supportable on multicores that support loads and stores. To demonstrate the value of RSP, its performance is compared to that of both shared and distributed memory approaches using the TILEPro64 multicore processor. RSP is shown to be as much as 1.76× faster than distribute...

The paper describes a new conversation management approach which may apply to a class of mixed initiative information seeking applications. It employs an application-independent conversation model inspired by the conversation theory of Grosz and Sidner [1]. Based on the model, we design a multi-layer conversation manager which employs instance-based learning (IBL) to determine conversation plan...

the purpose of this study was to examine how four teachers used the seven processes of videotape analysis to develop an analytic approach and reflective thinking towards their teaching. the study was organized within video clubs and was used to describe the interactions among four teachers about their experiences at a language institute. data were gathered through videotaped recordings of lesso...

Objectives: The spontaneous language sample analysis is an important part of the language assessment protocol. Language samples give us useful information about how children use language in the natural situations of daily life. The purpose of this study was to compare Conversation, Freeplay, and narrative speech in aspects of Mean Length of Utterance (MLU), Type-token ratio (TTR), and the numbe...

This paper explores the politicization of school reopenings in two swing states against backdrop rising COVID cases, public health warnings, and hyper-partisan weaponization “choice” rhetoric by parents to send children back into school. Rhetoric surrounding parental choice partnered with economic considerations placed significant pressure on boards navigate their reopening plans from a partisa...

EFL teachers’ professional identity is a multi-dimensional and complicated concept. It is influenced by many other issues in the educational context such as reflective practice. This study intended to explore the relationship between professional identity and reflectivity of Iranian EFL teachers. It also aimed to examine how high and low reflective teachers perceive the professional identity co...