l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate student...

this study was inspired by vanpatten and uludag’s (2011) study on the transferability of training via processing instruction to output tasks and mori’s (2002) work on the development of talk-in-interaction during a group task. an interview was devised as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest to compare four intervention types for teaching the simple past passive: traditional intervention ...

the purpose of this study was to probe the effect of metacognitive strategy instruction through dialogic interaction on the reading comprehension performance and metacognitive awareness of iranian efl learners. the data were collected through the survey of reading strategies (sors) and a reading test to examine changes in metacognitive awareness and reading performance before and after the inte...

This study attempted to systematically inspect the impact of direct and indirect corrective feedbacks on the writing ability of EFL learners when using product/process based instructions. To do so, 110 female EFL learners, between the ages of 15 and 18, were randomly assigned into four experimental groups to receive four different kinds of treatments, namely product-based instruction with direc...

Value reuse improves a processor’s performance by dynamically caching the results of previous instructions and reusing those results to bypass the execution of future instructions that have the same opcode and input operands. However, continually replacing the least recently used entries could eventually fill the value reuse table with instructions that are not frequently executed. Furthermore,...

objectives: verbal self-instruction strategy is one of the useful techniques for treating individual with learning disability. the purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of verbal self-instructional package on the social competence of students with learning disability. methods: the study was done in a quasi-experimental research and pre-test, post-test design with control grou...