The present study examines how different types of attention cueing and cognitive style affect learners’ comprehension of a cardiovascular system and cognitive load. In this study, the learners were randomly assigned into one of following groups: no-cueing, static-blood cueing, static-blood–static-arrow cueing, and dynamic-blood–dynamic-arrow cueing. The results showed that attention cueing yiel...

this study aimed at investigating the effect of learners’ gender on their preferences for corrective feedback. learners’ prefer- ences which were investigated included the necessity, frequency, timing, type, method, and delivering agent of error treatment. to this end, a questionnaire was administered to a random sample of 100 participants (50 males and 50 females) studying english (efl) at shi...

Current approaches to language pedagogy recognize the fact that ESL learners need explicit help to improve the grammatical accuracy of their writing. This research investigates the utility of an online resource intended to improve advanced-level ESL learners’ writing by increasing their grammatical awareness and ability to correct the grammatical errors in their own writing. This classroom-base...

Literature indicates that centrality is correlated with learners’ engagement in MOOCs. This paper explores the relationship between centrality and performance in two MOOCs. We found one positive and one null correlation between centrality and grade scores at the end of the MOOCs. In both MOOCs, we found out that learners tend to communicate with learners in different performance groups. This su...

the present study aimed at investigating the possible impact ofzone of proximal development (zpd) on the learners’ performance. forty-sixiranian university students participated in this study by taking two types of readingcomprehension tests (i.e., the main idea and wh-question type). the researchersused the winstep program to analyze the data and estimate the learners’ raschmeasure in pre, pos...

The aim of our research is to realize a system for supporting English composition in second language learning which allows learners to compose some sentences and gain appropriate awareness of their errors in the sentences with indirect information from the system. This paper proposes a method when and how the system provides stimuli to the learners, describes its implementation briefly, and rep...

This work builds on complexity theory in order to identify different types of learners that use video-based learning (VBL). VBL has great value as an educational tool which has already been identified in various contexts. This study combines learners’ demographics with learners’ experience in a conceptual model to explain the adoption of VBL technologies. We test and validate the proposed model...

In E-learning systems, where both helpers (tutors) and learners are separated geographically, finding a reliable helper is one of the most important challenges. Although helpers could have a lot of useful information about courses to be taught, many learners fail to understand their presentations. A major part of this paper deals with the following challenges: do helpers have information that t...

The primary purpose of this study is to find out which approach is more effective, text-based approach or dictionary-based approach, in learners’ mastery of new words and the time duration in learners’ memory. Group A learners received a text containing ten target words with explanations. Group B learners received the material of the same target words with meanings and examples. Ten minutes lat...