background and purpose: active learning, combined with computer-assisted instruction, can enhance medical students’ performance and learning. this article is an attempt to introduce a new web-based approach to information technology instruction for medical students. methods: eight topics were selected to be instructed in web-based workshops. phpbb forum was used for web-based collaborative lear...

This article is organised in five main sections. First, the sub-area of task-based instruction is introduced and contextualised. Its origins within communicative language teaching and second language acquisition research are sketched, and the notion of a task in language learning is defined. There is also brief coverage of the different and sometimes contrasting groups who are interested in the...

This paper reports on the generation of coordinated multimodal output for the NICE (Natural Interactive Communication for Edutainment) system [1]. In its first prototype, the system allows for fun and experientially rich interaction between primarily 10 to 18 years old human users and 3D-embodied fairy tale author H.C. Andersen in his study. User input consists of domainoriented spoken conversa...

This paper identifies a fundamental runtime program property: Instruction–Isomorphism. An instruction instance is said to be isomorphic if its component information derived from the instruction and its backward dynamic data dependence graph is identical to the component of an instruction executed earlier. By definition an isomorphic instruction will produce exactly the same output with the earl...

English language teaching (ELT) writing practitioners have long attempted to improve EFL/ESL learners’ competence in writing with recourse to either instruction or feedback. Likewise, researchers have, to date, mainly focused on either of these treatments to enhance language learners’ composing ability. Which treatment leads to more significant improvements is, however, unclear. Moreover, of th...