the idea is growing among educators that thinking skill needs to be given a direct attention. on one hand, critical thinking is supposed to broaden students’ thinking in all regards (schafersman, 1991); and on the other hand learners’ attitudes towards the second language can affect both their performance in the class and their final accomplishment. to this end, the present study started with t...

This paper describes the experiences made employing Cadence's Skill/IL Framework extension language for both educational and research purposes. While the language and its facilities were examined in detail in order to evaluate it and to create a comprehensive documentation, it was also used to develop tools simplifying the use of the Design Framework for beginning students. An introductory cour...

There exists considerable variation, at the level of the individual, in human sentence processing performance. Here, we aim to illuminate the degree to which experience with language can account for these individual differences. In Experiment 1, we demonstrate that subtle interactions between specific verbs and preceding linguistic context can drive reading times on complex sentences, but only ...