One functional anatomical model of reading, drawing on human neuropsychological and neuroimaging data, proposes that a region in left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) becomes, through experience, specialized for written word perception. We tested this hypothesis by presenting numbers in orthographical and digital form with two task demands, phonological and numerical. We observed a main ef...

Recent second language (L2) writing research informed by task-based theories of acquisition has enthusiastically adopted task complexity frameworks to describe the specific cognitive demands a given and effect those on written L2 production. However, missing from many studies effects production is discussion genre as potential source complexity. This paper examines resource-dispersing form that...

The current study was conducted for investigating the effect of Metacognitive skills on pupil teachers’ written assignment performance. executed while using Quasi-Experimental nonequivalent pretest-posttest control group design. two sections B.Ed (Honors) Semester-I (each consisting 30 students) were selected conveniently this study. Before intervention, both groups have been pretested and ther...

Abstract This study investigates whether the use of prosodic cues during instruction facilitates processing German accusative case markers. Two groups third semester L1 English learners L2 completed Processing Instruction (PI) with aural input: Learners in PI+P group heard sentences that included focused cues; PI monotone prosody. The effects training were assessed through an offline comprehens...