Online simulated workplace tasks to enhance business English learning

Creating Algorithmic Symbols to Enhance Learning English Grammar

This paper introduces a set of English grammar symbols that the author has developed to enhance students’ understanding and consequently, application of the English grammar rules. A pretest-posttest control-group design was carried out in which the samples were students in two girls’ senior high schools (N=135, P ≤ 0.05) divided into two groups: the Treatment which received gramm...

Designing reading tasks to maximise vocabulary learning

Most vocabulary learning should occur incidentally through listening and reading. This is one of the  reasons  why  a  substantial  extensive  reading  program  is  an  important  part  of  an  English course.  Extensive  reading  requires  the  learners  to  do  large quantities  of  reading  using  material that  is  at  the  right  level  for  them.  Vocabulary  learning  occurs  through  th...

Procedural Tasks to Enhance Performance , Learning , and Transfer Procedural Instructions

http://hfs.sagepub.com/content/53/6/749 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0018720811419154 published online 14 September 2011 2011 53: 749 originally Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Elsa Eiriksdottir and Richard Catrambone Procedural Tasks to Enhance Performance, Learning, and Transfer Procedural Instructions, Principles, and...

Learning to change: The Virtual Business Learning approach to professional workplace learning

At the Open University of the Netherlands, the Virtual Business Learning (VBL) concept has been developed over a number of years. VBL serves as an ‘umbrella’ term that covers concepts from both the education and business worlds. Implementations of the VBL concept focus on the coached development of the professional competencies that underlie successfully innovative behavior in ICT intense enter...

Exploitation and assessment of a Business English corpus through language learning tasks