Literacy skills are critical for future success, yet over 60% of high school seniors lack proficient reading according to standardized tests. The focus on stakes, test performance may lead educators “teach-to-the-test” rather than supporting transferable comprehension strategies that students need. StairStepper can fill this gap by blending necessary prep and strategy practice in a fun, game-ba...

Foreign Language Reading Anxiety (FLRA), distinguished as a distinct phenomenon from general language anxiety, has been shown to have a negative impact on reading comprehension skill especially for less proficient EFL learners. FLRA is believed to originate from "unfamiliar writing system" or learners' difficulty in pronouncing words and sentences (Saito, Graza, & Horwitz, 1999). Slow or word b...

abstract the study aimed at investigating the efficacy of written corrective feedback (cf) in improving iranian efl learners’ grammatical accuracy. it compared the effects of focused and unfocused written cf on the learners’ grammatical accuracy. 75 efl students formed a one control and two experimental groups. the focused feedback group was provided with error correction in tenses. the unfocus...

While the existing DSS enables self-motivated learners to engage in situated, exploratory and independent learning, the addition of teaching strategies and a student model would allow: 1) Scaffolded and individualized exploitation of the overview for case-based teaching. 2) Learner motivation through selective presentation of challenging cases. 3) Active guidance on the use of integrated web-ba...

This paper aims at extending our understanding of a problematizing practice in Critical Applied Linguistics by exploring issues pertaining to political “confusion syndrome” Discourses. Central to this practice is how EFL teachers and learners depart from their reluctance to explore political issues. Being scaffolded with a working model of such Discourses and a suggested simulation practice, th...

In this contribution I will offer a rough guide through “situated affectivity”, small galaxy of theories, ideas, intuitions which are recently growing at the boundaries between philosophy emotion, mind, cognitive science. last years, we witnessing real “affective turn” in domain analytic mind and science, situated affectivity is an excellent example what going on field. first part, present main...

We present a genome assembly of Caretta caretta (the Loggerhead sea turtle; Chordata, Testudines, Cheloniidae), generated from genomic data two unrelated females. The sequence is 2.13 gigabases in size. majority the scaffolded into 28 chromosomal representations with remaining 2% being excluded these.