this article reports on the findings of a study that investigated the impact of manipulating task performance conditions on listening task performance by learners of english as a foreign language (efl). the study was designed to explore the effects of changing complexity dimensions on listening task performance and to achieve two aims: to see how listening comprehension task performance was aff...

one of the major criticisms leveled at task-based language teaching (tblt), despite its countless merits, is developing fluency at the cost of accuracy. the post-task stage affords a number of options to counteract this downside through task repetition and task recycling. these two options are considered to positively affect learners' oral performance in terms of fluency, accuracy, and complexi...

this study examined the effects of task complexity on written narrative production under different task complexity conditions by efl learners at different proficiency levels. task complexity was manipulated along robinson’s (2001b) proposed task complexity dimension of here-and-now (simple) vs. there-and-then (complex) in. accordingly, three specific measures of the written narratives were targ...

background: the objective of this study was to determine the heart rate and oxygen consumption of the elderly whilst frying. methodology: in 2010, a total of 31 subjects (11 males and 20 females) from sg. merab, selangor were participated in this study. they were aged between 60 to 83 years with a mean age of 67.06 years. they were asked to perform five minutes frying task and data were measure...

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abstract background: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are a serious problem among the nursing staff. mental workload is the major cause of msds among nursing staff. the aim of this study was to investigate the mental workload dimensions and their association with msds among nurses of alzahra hospital, affi liated to isfahan university of medical sciences. materials and methods: this descriptive...

background and aim: function-based inter­vention have been shown to have positive increase in social skills of children with behavi­oral problems. the same findings can be potentially applied to the deaf and hard of hearing (d/hh) children. the present study examined the efficacy of differential reinforce­ment of alternative behavior (dra) on the on-task behaviors of deaf and hard of hearing st...

objectives: the aim of this study was to identify the role of attentional process in postural control using choice reaction time task while changing the visual and proprioceptive cues under difficult balance task (standing on one-leg). methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted by participating 20 young people (22.75±2.29). each subject performed one-leg standing as balance task for each...