Zur Beantwortung der Frage, warum Bildersuchen auf Schlüsselwörtern basieren, statt auf den bildimmanenten Informationen, werden Repräsentationsmöglichkeiten für Bildinformationen vorgestellt, die Personen in die Lage versetzen, Anfragen in Form von Bildinformationen statt Schlüsselwörtern zu formulieren. Die Bildinformationen sollen in einer Weise interpretiert werden, die dem subjektiven Empf...

This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of input-based, meaning-based output (MO) and traditional instruction (TI) on EFL learners’ grammar learning. To this end, 120 junior high school students were selected from 4 intact classes. Each class was assigned to an instructional condition, that is, textual enhancement (TE), input flood (IF), MO, and TI. Before the treatment, a multiple-c...

The present study aims to report on the perceptions of a group English as foreign (EFL) teachers’ content-based instruction (CBI) in language teaching and its effectiveness for primary school students. teachers participating offered through CBI they were interviewed about their perspectives terms lessons nature overall program. In-service working with young learners received questions CBI, adva...

A Conceptual Model for the Design and Delivery of Explicit Thinking Skills Instruction Abstract Developing student thinking skills is an important goal for most educators. However, due to time constraints and weighty content standards, thinking skills instruction is often embedded in subject matter, implicit and incidental. For best results, thinking skills instruction requires a systematic des...

Systematic phonics instruction in first language education has recently received considerable research attention due to its critical role in facilitating phonological awareness and processing skills. However, little is known about the effects of systematic phonics instruction on foreign language reading and spelling in an EFL context. This study examined the effects of spelling-based phonics in...