Explaining differences in one teacher’s instruction across multiple tracked fifth‐grade classes

Gender Differences in Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of the Role of Grammar Instruction and Corrective Feedback

This paper explores male and female students' and teachers' perceptions of the role of grammar instruction and corrective feedback. A questionnaire, administered to 60 male and female intermediate EFL students (30 males and 30 females) and 40 teachers (20 males and 20 females), elicited student and teacher perceptions concerning the role of explicit grammar instruction and corrective feedback i...

Explaining Differences in Welfare Caseload Declines Across California’s Counties

Focusing on welfare policy differences at the county level in California, this paper explores the reasons for the differing declines in welfare recipiency rates across the state’s counties. Using a regression framework, it attempts to isolate the effects of differences in counties’ economic characteristics, demographic characteristics, and policy choices on differences in counties’ recipiency r...

Modified output in task-based EFL classes across gender

AbstractThe current study examined the modification devices (MDs) used by non-native speakers (NNSs) learning EFL during dyadic task-based interactions. Three meaning-oriented tasks, namely picture-description, spot-the-difference, and opinion-exchange, were used to elicit data from 24(12 male and 12 female, forming 4 male-male, 4 female-female, and 4 male-female dyads) Iranian EFL learners wit...

How Are Teachers Using Computers in Instruction?

persian true and false cognates in english: students and teachers’ attitudes, awareness, and instruction

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...