Audiovisual material accompanied by interlingual subtitles is a powerful pedagogical tool which can help improve the vocabulary learning of second-language learners. This study was intended to determine whether or not the mode (standard and reversed) of subtitling affects the incidental vocabulary acquisition of Iranian L2 learners while watching TV programs. Forty-five participants were random...

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Abstract Task-based language teaching has received increased attention in second language research. However, the combination of structured input-based approach and task-based language teaching has not been examined in relation to L2 grammar learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the structured input-based tasks with and without explicit information impacted learners’ ...

This paper presents a practical method of adding problem-specific notation to an established computer language. Our idea is to use unrestricted operator overloading as a tool to map the problem domain notation directly into an existing programming language. Our method introduces new operator symbols and function names into a host language by overloading existing usage. We extend the host progra...