This study has aimed to compare the effects of two types of form-focused instruction, i.e. de-contextualized focus-on-forms instruction versus meaning-centered contextualized focus-on-form instruction, on the development of grammatical knowledge of Iranian high-school students. Two groups of male high-school first graders participated in this study.  One group was taught through de-contextualiz...

In spite of the importance of representation in learning, little progress has been made toward understanding what makes representations work. This paper describes a framework for knowledge-level analysis of changes in the representation of training examples in concept learning. This a very fundamental sort of representation change; such a change alters the very space over which learning occurs ...

Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...

Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...

This study investigates and compares the efficacy of differentiated instruction and traditional-based instruction on enhancing Iranian students’ reading comprehension. Eight elementary, intermediate, and advanced classrooms from 1 language institute were chosen, and based on their performance on the pretests were further divided into 4 control and 4 treatment groups. Flexible grouping, tiered i...

Nelson RK, Chesler NC, Strang KT. Development of concept-based physiology lessons for biomedical engineering undergraduate students. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 176–183, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00038.2012.— Physiology is a core requirement in the undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum. In one or two introductory physiology courses, engineering students must learn physiology sufficiently to su...

The present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in Iranian EFL setting. Sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on Nelson language proficiency test. Then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

Web-Based Instruction, Individual Differences, System Features. Abstract: In this paper, we describe and propose a web based instruction (WBI) program. The purposes of this research were to develop the Web-Based Instruction model using Social Media Application to enhance Knowledge Management skills. concerning the faculty's participation in developing and teaching Web-based courses may lead to ...