This study investigated the effectiveness of reactive incidental focus on form (FonF) for each learner with regard to different linguistic categories in meaning-oriented EFL classes. To this end, 30 hr of meaningful interactions of upper-intermediate EFL learners were audio-recorded in 2 free discussion classes. Instances of reactive incidental focus-on-form episodes (FFEs), where teachers offe...

Recent developments in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance and the ubiquity of metaphors in language. Their effect has been instrumental in making significant headway into the pedagogical practice and design of teaching materials. The current study was carried out to explore the efficacy of focus-on-form (FonF) and focus-on-forms (FonFs) instructions on learning metaphorical l...

We provide an elementary proof of a result by V. P. Fonf and C. Zanco on point-finite coverings separable Hilbert spaces. Indeed, using variation the famous argument introduced J. Lindenstrauss R. Phelps [Israel Math. 6 (1968), pp. 39–48] to prove that unit ball reflexive infinite-dimensional Banach space has uncountably many extreme points, we following result. Let <inline-formula cont...

The current study, setting a two-fold goal, attempted to see whether the preemptive focus on form (FonF) under either planned or unplanned conditions could contribute to increasing lexical diversity in written narratives and, second, to find whether there was a trade-off between the lexical diversity and accuracy. To this end, 32 beginner learners were selected following a Quick Oxford Placemen...

For each countable ordinal α, let Sα be the Schreier set of order α and XSα corresponding space α. In this paper, we prove several new properties these spaces. 1. If is nonzero, then XSαpossesses λ-property Aron Lohman a (V)-polyhedral in sense Fonf Vesely. 2. nonzero 1<p<∞, p-convexification p possesses uniform Lohman. 3. ∗ has λ-property. 4. n∈N, if T:XSn→XSnis an onto linear isometry, Tei=±e...