the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of call/web-based instruction on improving efl learners’ pronunciation ability. to this end, 85 students who were enrolled in a language institute in rasht were selected as subjects. these students were given the oxford placement test in order to validate their proficiency levels. they were then divided into two groups of 30 and were rando...

stack: as ∈ Exp∗ Table 5.1 on the preceding page defines the function BC2IRinstr which takes a bytecode address, a bytecode instruction and an abstract input stack, and produces an IR instruction and an abstract output stack. The function reconstructs the high-level expressions from operand-stack manipulating bytecode instructions. The bytecode instructions store x, putf f , newC , and callm ar...

This applied research was designed to analyze the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction as compared to teacher-directed instruction in 5th-grade mathematics and science courses at the subject school. The subject school modified mathematics and science curriculum for 3 years and became an Alabama Math, Science, and Technology (AMSTI) [2009] school. AMSTI provided extensive professional deve...

Parallel implementation of complex computational software is a difficult task. This paper describes the Super Instruction Architecture (SIA) and its application to the implementation of algorithms for electronic structure computational chemistry calculations. The methods are programmed in a domain specific programming language called super instruction assembly language (SIAL), which is based on...

Existing systems are able to learn information agents through demonstration that provide programmatic access to web-based information. However it is still difficult for end users to combine these information agents in procedures that are customized to their particular needs. We combine learning by demonstration with learning by instruction to build a system to learn such procedures with a small...

Channels as an essential part of a processor's instruction set were rst launched with the Transputer. We have made two major alterations: the semantics of the input and output instruction are changed in order to overlap communication, and channels are allowed to be communicated over channels (higher order communications). All operations can be easily implemented in hardware.

With the aim of more emphasis on pragmatics and its inclusion in EFL classrooms, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of obtrusive and unobtrusive focus on form instructions on learners’ pragmatic performance of criticizing in English. 54 Iranian learners, all at intermediate level, participated in this study, and they were divided into three groups: 19 participants receiving o...