abstract the role of efl lecturers’ first language (l1) in the efl courses has been an ongoing debate. a monolingual approach to efl suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (fl) classroom improves learning of the target language. accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of iranian lecturers and efl learners towards using l1 as...

Teachers gesture when they teach, and those gestures do not always convey the same information as their speech. Gesture thus offers learners a second message. To determine whether learners take advantage of this offer, we gave 160 children in the third and fourth grades instruction in mathematical equivalence. Children were taught either one or two problem-solving strategies in speech accompani...

This study investigated how English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners with different learning styles (Field dependent and field independent) boost up their reading comprehension abilities as they develop their metacognitive skills. To conduct this research, 60 participants were randomly invited to sit PET (Preliminary English Test) to ensure homogeneity of the participants in terms of language...

This paper investigates whether the advanced Korean learners of standard Chinese produce Chinese with specific voice quality, and which voice quality parameters have significant difference. The study includes comparative analysis between the Korean and Chinese vowel /a/ for Korean speakers. It can be made certain by measuring voice quality parameters by means of EGG (electroglottalgraphy). The ...

In the age of information explosion, e-learning recommender systems (ELRSs) have emerged as the most essential tool to deliver personalized learning resources to learners. Due to enormous amount of information on the web, learner faces problem in searching right information. ELRSs deal with the problem of information overload effectively and provide recommendations by taking into consideration ...

Learning in multimedia environments is hard because it requires learners to actively comprehend and integrate information across diverse sources and modalities. Selfexplanation is an effective learning strategy that helps learners develop deep understanding of complex phenomena and could be used to support learning from multimedia. Researchers have established the benefits of self-explaining ac...

Question: To what extent can learning facilitate group formation in a social forager? Model features: An individual-based simulation model is used to explore frequencyand density-dependent interactions between mobile learners and non-selective stayers that forage in a patchy resource environment. Key assumption: Foraging efficiency peaks at intermediate group sizes. Conclusions: Frequency-depen...

The current article was an attempt to investigate the effect of semantic mapping strategy instruction on reading comprehension performance of EFL learners. To this end, thirty homogeneous Iranian intermediate EFL learners attending a language school in Bonab, Iran, were randomly assigned to two groups, one as the experimental and the other as the control. The experimental group received instruc...

Question: To what extent can learning facilitate group formation in a social forager?Model features: An individual-based simulation model is used to explore frequencyanddensity-dependent interactions between mobile learners and non-selective stayers that foragein a patchy resource environment.Key assumption: Foraging efficiency peaks at intermediate group sizes.Conclusions: ...