Young children with learning disabilities typically encounter difficulty with academic tasks requiring intentional effort and effective use of metacognitive skills--qualities that competent readers and writers possess. In response to these difficulties, special educators often modify literacy instruction, isolating the "basic skills" of literacy (such as decoding and penmanship) from meaningful...

The purpose of this research was to investigate how various distance-learning technologies affect student learning in a high-level course in the military. This training comprised three phases: asynchronous, synchronous, and residential instruction. Initial site visits indicated that this course was extensively planned and supported. At the end of one training course experience, two focus groups...

This study examined the development of global intelligibility in one’s spontaneous workplace spoken ESL response to form-focused instruction (FFI) through analyses comments from both learner and tutor subjective listeners’ impressionistic judgments. The feedback individuals who worked with Malcolm showed perceived improvement Malcolm’s intelligibility, while no statistically significant change ...

This paper reports on a study investigating children’s attitudes towards dictogloss, a type of focus on form task designed to facilitate learners’ understanding of the target form in a meaning-focused context. The compatibility of this language teaching procedure with interests and motivation of learners, in effect, provides a learner perspective of the effectiveness and usefulness of the task....

This paper proposes an auto-focus Instruction function. The function is derived from Ostu segmentation. It uses class variance of segmentation result to instruct auto-focus process. Compare with the exist functions, class variance function need a small calculation mount. It is immunity to jam coming from camera and other inspection. It responses in a wide object distance range. And the value ch...

this study aims to compare the effects of four types of ffi on second language vocabulary learning. to do so, the study adopted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design, including five groups, each receiving a distinct treatment. the participants were 80 fourth-grade male students ranging in age from 17 to 19. before the treatment phase, the participants took a researcher-made test of vocab...