This paper reports research in progress. It presents information in the literature on converting traditional courses into Webbased format. The paper is divided into four parts. The first part makes and introduction to Distance Education (DE) and Web-Based Instruction (WBI), which combines features from both face-to-face classroom instruction and DE. The second part discusses current Instruction...

This paper proposes that in addition to the typical “out-of-the-blue” existential construction, a kind of contextualized construction exists Mandarin Chinese. form does not exhibit predicate restriction observed constructions cross-linguistically. It is argued this type involves topic-comment structure and functions as subtype Existential Coda Construction discussed by Zhang (2007, 2008). The c...

US schools have traditionally been characterized by teacher privacy and independence, yet theory and empirical work suggest that peer observation and support – or " de-privatized instruction " – can help improve pedagogical practice. In this randomized controlled trial, we investigate whether the introduction of video technology into a school, through a video-based teacher evaluation system cal...

indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving efl learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics brown (2001). accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

Features Bridging the Gap: Delivering Distance Education Courses on the Web —Peter Golz 17 Computer Assisted Writing in CALL—Chiaki Iwai 25 Creating Web-Based Soap Operas for Learning English—Ken Koebke 35 Multimedia in Language Instruction: Challenges and Solutions —Jörg Roche 45 Teaching the Previous fin de stiele w i t h the Help of Current fin de siMe Technology—Gary Smith 53 Accessible Aut...

Contextualization of Geospatial Database Semantics Written by Administrator Thursday, 19 May 2011 07:40 Last Updated Friday, 04 October 2013 17:19 Human interactions with geographical information are contextualized by problem-solving activities which endow meaning to geospatial data and processing. However, existing spatial data models have not taken this aspect of semantics into account. This ...

We present ongoing research concerning a communicationbased approach to information modelling. The general goal of our research is to understand and support (contextualized) modelling dialogues rather than the models that result from these dialogues or the modelling languages in which the models are expressed. We take the point of view that information modelling dialogues are subject to the sam...