This paper reviews general guidelines on user interface design for self service and public information kiosk systems, based on the author’s research and existing literature. The guidelines are divided into: defining user requirements, location and encouraging use, physical access, introduction and instruction, language selection, privacy, help, input, output, structure and navigation, and custo...

Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...

Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...

This study investigates and compares the efficacy of differentiated instruction and traditional-based instruction on enhancing Iranian students’ reading comprehension. Eight elementary, intermediate, and advanced classrooms from 1 language institute were chosen, and based on their performance on the pretests were further divided into 4 control and 4 treatment groups. Flexible grouping, tiered i...

The Instruction-Set Extensions problem has been one of the major topic in the last years and it consists of the addition of a set of new complex instructions to a given Instruction-Set. This problem in its general formulation requires an exhaustive search of the design space to identify the candidate instructions. This search turns into an exponential complexity of the solution. In this paper w...

Web-Based Instruction, Individual Differences, System Features. Abstract: In this paper, we describe and propose a web based instruction (WBI) program. The purposes of this research were to develop the Web-Based Instruction model using Social Media Application to enhance Knowledge Management skills. concerning the faculty's participation in developing and teaching Web-based courses may lead to ...

In this thesis we present two prediction techniques for estimating the error coverage of target programs stimulated with different inputs. Preliminarily, we investigate the effects of the inputs on the failure distribution of the target programs using fault injection experiments. From this study, we could find a linear correlation between the length of the input and the error coverage. This res...

Several years ago a group of our computer science faculty began seriously examining initial programming instruction. We discovered a shared perception that too many students don't write reasonable programs even after completing a semester course in programming. Others have noted the same may even be true after the second course (e.g., [1]). There is cause for concern as computer applications pe...

The current research was an effort to study the interaction of gender with text enhancement and meta-cognitive grammar instruction on learning and recall of English grammar. To this end, two groups of students consisting of 51 learners from both genders were formed. The participants were 51 male and 51 female learners. The 51 participants of each gender were further divided into two groups. The...