Form-focused instruction occupies an important position in China’s secondary schools. However, middle school English teaching has been criticized for the sustainability of form-focused instruction. The new Curriculum Standards suggest that grammar should be integrated into communicative activities, but no precise guidance is provided on how to integrate activities. This study investigates teach...

Differentiated instruction has a direct impact on the quality of teaching in inclusive classrooms. For student teachers, their ability to plan and apply differentiation is factor transformation from dependent an independent teacher. This study examines teachers’ practice differentiated meet diverse needs elementary students including English learners. The participants completed survey, planned ...

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...

0272-1732/00/$10.00  2000 IEEE The press and the technical community have generated much excitement and speculation about the IA-64 instruction set and the Itanium processor. Intel and HewlettPackard have rolled out (one instruction at a time) the instruction set. Intel is rolling out (one transistor at a time) the Itanium processor and other platform components. This special issue provides th...

this article, with a focus on the change and transformation process of the approaches and trends affecting the new towns policy, scrutinizes the first and second generations of the new towns in reference to the south korea as a case study. the first generation of new towns development in south korea is associated with the rapid growth of urbanization, industrialization and subsequently economic...

As cities are exposed to a portfolio of risks, the concept resilience has risen prominence over past two decades. Consequently, large volume research been published on different aspects urban resilience. However, form is still relatively understudied. step toward filling this gap, study examines nine selected neighborhoods from Shiraz, an old Iranian city. The cases represent three patterns, na...

Focus on form has received considerable attention as researchers and theorists have enthusiastically embraced an integration of meaning-focused and form-focused instruction in the L2 classroom. Therefore, the present paper is an attempt to delve deeply into elucidating different taxonomies subsumed under the specious polarization of Focus on Form (FoF) and Focus on Forms (FoFs). It then offers ...