the present study investigates the effect of e-mail on iranian learners of english and focuses on teaching thewriting skillvia e-mail. more specifically, the study investigates (a) whether using e-mail has any statistically significant effect on improving high school students' writing skill, and (b) whether the proficiency level has any relation with students’ writing improvement through using ...

Reflective thought, as sustained in writing, is ottributed to two-way communication between o content problem space and a rhetorical problem space. An instructional experiment involving sixth-graders aimed at helping them sustoin such a two-way process independently, in place of the more typical onewoy process of generating content and writing it out. Instruction included modeling of thinking a...

An attempt to use the Times macro, [2], was the origin of writing this article. First, the semantics of the macro composition as developed in [23, 3, 4] is extended to the case of macro instructions which are not always halting. Next, several functors extending the memory handling for SCMFSA, [18], are defined; they are convenient when writing more complicated programs. After this preparatory w...

Learning styles are considered among the significant factors that aid instructors in deciding how well their students learn a second or foreign language (Oxford, 2003). Although this issue has been accepted broadly in educational psychology,further research is required to examine the relationship between learning styles and language learning skills. Thus, the present study was carried out to in...

The purpose of this research was to analyze EFL writing tasks in two of the most popular English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) exam preparation courses in Iran, namely IELTS and TOEFL. Having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate EFL writing tasks in 3 IELTS and 3...

Since the emergence of the process-oriented approach to second language writing instruction two main questions have been what and how error feedback should be given to the students. The question of whether teachers should provide feedback on grammar in the writing assignments of English as a foreign language students, and if so how, has been a matter of considerable debate in the field of secon...

All the World's a Laboratory: Inquiry-Based Learning Experiments in the First Year To solve the problem, I looked to the one thing that I had in abundance: First Year As we begin to incorporate ACRL's new Framework into our instruction Hear how an instruction librarian and two teaching faculty integrate research. It provides resources for use by library faculty and teaching faculty. learning re...

Contemporary strategies in STEM education focus on developing pedagogies that more actively engage students in their own learning. A method that has proven effective to this end has been peer instruction and discussion, particularly those in which participating students must organize information in such a way as to be able to verbally articulate it to others. The success of peer learning raises...

Research background: Digital multimodal composition has recently received paramount attention in the instruction of second language writing. Gap knowledge: Although merits digital have widely been acknowledged by many scholars, English writing still remained monomodal Iran.Purpose study: The present quasi-experimental study aimed to investigate differential impacts two types (multimodal/monomod...