The present study aims to investigate language learners’ cognitive processes in on-line ESP courses. Three modes of inquiry are used: think-aloud protocol analysis, screen capture analysis, and correlation analysis. The theoretical foundations for the evaluation of the cognitive aspect of Ferdowsi Univeristy of Mashhad E-learning System are drawn from cognitive load theory, cognitive apprentice...

the present paper seeks to investigate the cognitive abilities of expert efl teachers. to this aim, the existing literature was examined and ten cognitive themes were derived which were further investigated through interviews conducted with ten academics, teacher trainers and exemplary teachers of the field in the iranian context. the ten extracted themes were attested by interviewees’ comments...

Identifying aspect semantics as study of linguistic life of concepts, this paper describes various paths by which language extends and grows. At the center of this approach are such notions as “an aspect of a class of concepts” and a “spectrum of aspects of a concept”. Three different paths are described: Cognitive Modification, Cognitive Expansion and Cognitive Extension and rules formalizing ...