Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...

Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...

indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving efl learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics brown (2001). accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

The objective of this paper is to understand and study sustainable product development using a systems approach. In the real world, artifacts interact with each other to form a web structure (known as artifact system (AS)), which has its own laws of evolution. Specifically, this paper focuses on development of “Factor X” model to study the diffusion of ecoinnovation strategies. The concept of “...

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We show how WeCoTin, an academic prototype product configurator originally designed for non-software products, can be used to create and edit feature models of software product lines. Further, we show that WeCoTin enables the easy configuration of software product lines, i.e., generating descriptions of valid products in the product line.

Product definition technology has evolved in such a way as to encourage the proliferation of data formats used within the product lifecycle for various use cases. One such product development framework being proposed in industry today is the model-based enterprise (MBE), which is operationally driven by the model-based definition (MBD) of products. This paper describes current models of the pro...