learning-oriented assessment seeks to emphasise that a fundamental purpose of assessment should be to promote learning. it mirrors formative assessment and assessment for learning processes. it can be defined as actions undertaken by teachers and / or students, which provide feedback for the improvement of teaching and learning. it also contrasts with equally important measurement-focused appro...

the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of implicit focus on form through input flooding and the effect of noticing, explicit focus on form on linguistic accuracy. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 86 iranian pre-intermediate efl learners of one of the language institutes were chosen by means of administering ket as the homogeneity test. these learners were pretested throug...

abstract i the purpose of this study was to launch a thorough investigation concerning the possibility of differing orientations to the writing proficiency construct by native and non-native english speaking teacher raters. it mainly revolved around the international english language testing system (ielts) that is widely administered and employed as a measure of general proficiency in englis...

عنوان پایان نامه تاثیر آموزش معنا محور بر مهارت خواندن زبان آموزان سطح متوسط ایرانی است. طی سالهای اخیر با ارائه نظریات جدید آموزشی تمرکز از فرم به معنا تغییر کرده است. همراه با نظریه استفان کرشن مبنی بر ارائه مطالب قابل فهم برای آموزش زبان روشهای جدیدی همچون content-based instruction و task based instruction پا به عرصه وجود گذاشتند که همه جزو روشهای communicative می باشند. در این تحقیق با ا...

recent years have witnessed an increased attention to form focused instruction and consciousness raising activities (ellis, 2002; doughty & williams, 1998) on the one hand and extensive and meaningful exposure to the target language (klapper & rees, 2003; day & bamford, 1998) on the other. due to significance attributed to above mentioned issues by scholars, this study attempted to bridge them ...