<p>Theoretical linguistics and teaching are concurrent, that is, neither can exist without the other. In other words, decisions made in (foreign) language will inevitably affect how testing evaluation as a concept is designed administered. For example, if curriculum states English foreign teachers need to make distinction between gerund an infinitive classroom teach it such, then, this be...

In this paper, we present a derivative-based, functional recognizer and parser generator for visibly pushdown grammars. The generated accepts ambiguous grammars produces parse forest containing all valid trees an input string in linear time. Each tree the can then be extracted also Besides generator, to allow more flexible forms of grammars, translator that converts tagged CFG grammar sound way...

this study was designed to investigate the effect of grammar and vocabulary pre-teaching, as two types of pre-reading activities, on the iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension from a schema–theoretic perspective. the sample consisted of 90 female students studying at pre-university centers of isfahan.  the subjects were randomly divided into three equal-in-number groups. they participated ...

The purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers TEFL (teaching English as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. Subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. The adapted English version of Mills’ and Péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the Foreign Langu...