the use of the internet as a source of information gathering, self-help and support is becoming increasingly recognized. parents and professionals of children with hearing impairment have been shown to seek information about different communication approaches online. cued speech is a very new approach to persian speaking pupils. our aim was to develop a useful website to give related informatio...

The difficulty of assessing the writing skill is well known. Different testing facets seem to affect the result of assessing the writing skill. In addition to the writer’s ability, the topic of the writing task, and methods of rating may contribute to the writer’s score. In this study, 50 EFL learners wrote four different types of writing tasks (convincing, describing, instructing, and explaini...

The purpose of this study is to find a practical solution for improving writing skill among Iranian high school learners of EFL. The main question was whether pragmatics had any priority over traditional methods in improving writing or not.  Forty high school students were selected on the basis of their performance in PET (2009). In addition the following instruments were also used in this quas...

This article describes how a group of Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners were guided through the practice of writing their first academic essays in English. The method applied the principle of scaffolding to the essay writing process by providing flexible support for the learners during the writ- ing their first essays. Scaffolding included a number of aspects, each of which is explained i...

This study investigated if different response formats (test methods) measure reading comprehension of expository text differently. The study was conducted with 48 semester 6 TESL students at a university in Selangor, Malaysia. These students received an expository passage having descriptive rhetorical structure followed by three response formats, namely, incomplete outline, graphic organizer, a...

Larrison, Abigail L., Carolyn F. Ferrante, Kevin A. Briand, Anne B. Sereno: Schizotypal Traits, Attention and Eye Movements. Prog. Neuro-Psychopharmacol. & Biol. Psychiat. 2000,24, pp. 357-372. 02000 Elscvicr S&n= Inc. 1. Subjects demonstrating high, average, or low schizotypal traits participated in saccade tasks of eye movements and attention including: a simple saccade task, an antisaccade t...

Research examining the neuroanatomical bases of memory in mammals suggests that the hippocampus and dorsal striatum are parts of independent memory systems that mediate "cognitive" and stimulus-response "habit" memory, respectively. At the molecular level, increasing evidence indicates a role for immediate early gene (IEG) expression in memory formation. The present experiment examined whether ...

Recently tasks, as the basic units of syllabi, and the cognitive complexity, as the criterion for sequencing them, have caught many second language researchers’ attention. This study sought to explore the effect of utilizing the cognitively simple and complex tasks on high- and low-proficient EFL Iranian writers’ linguistic performance, i.e., fluency, accuracy, lexical complexity, and structura...

The rearing environment of layer chicks can differ greatly in degree complexity. With the industry moving towards cage-free housing systems, greater demands are placed on birds’ cognitive abilities order for them to find resources such as food, water and nest-boxes. Because early environmental complexity influence cognition, we aimed at increasing our knowledge how two different environments af...