This study investigated the effects of different output-based task repetition conditions on EFL learners’ speech act production. Three intact classes of English-major students constituted three instructional groups: (1) the explicit task-repetition (ETR) group, (2) the implicit task-repetition (ITR) group, and (3) the no-input task repetition (NTR) group. All the three groups engaged in t...

1 CRIL IUT de Lens Université d’Artois, Rue de l’université SP 16, 62307 Lens cedex, France. [email protected] Abstract. Abduction and induction are two basic and logical inference forms of reasoning. This paper addresses the intersting question of which form of reasoning needs the other in the context of learning task. It appears that if it is easy to show that abduction needs induction, it i...

Effective knowledge management in a knowledge-intensive environment can place heavy demands on the information filtering (IF) strategies used to model workers’ long-term task-needs. Because of the growing complexity of knowledgeintensive work tasks, a profiling technique is needed to deliver task-relevant documents to workers. In this study, we propose an IF technique with task-stage identifica...

This experimental study examined the effectiveness of using focused and unfocused tasks on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ performance in producing noun, adjective, and adverb clauses. In addition,the aim of this study was to explore the effects of form-focused instruction and the feedback students received from their teacher after doing focused grammar tasks. Data consisted of the scores of...

Recommender systems engage user profiles and appropriate filtering techniques to assist users in finding more relevant information over the large volume of information. User profiles play an important role in the success of recommendation process since they model and represent the actual user needs. However, a comprehensive literature review of recommender systems has demonstrated no concrete s...

In this paper, we present our solutions for the WikipediaMM task at ImageCLEF 2008. The aim of this task is to investigate effective retrieval approaches in the context of a large-scale and heterogeneous collection of Wikipedia images that are searched by textual queries (and/or sample images and/or concepts) describing a user’s information need. We first experimented with a text-based image re...

The aim of the current study was to compare the influence of on-line planning and pre-task planning on the performance of EFL university students enjoying different levels of proficiency regarding accuracy, fluency and complexity. To this end a group of 134 EFL learners with different proficiency levels were asked to write narrative tasks under two planning conditions (Pre-task planning and on-...