The role of metacognitive awareness on language teaching and learning have been confirmed by several studies, but the discussions this topic in Chinese as foreign are limited. aim present research was to map profile learners. Total respondent 80 learners (38 males 42 females) which comprise secondary students. Convenience sampling technique employed select respondents. Meanwhile, data were coll...

There is insufficient rigorous research examining which features of EFL/ESL learners’ writing can be improved through their awareness/knowledge of collocation. This study, therefore, addressed this issue and examined the effect of this awareness on Iranian EFL learners’ writing performance with respect to the specific features of each writing sub-component (i.e., content, organization, vocabula...

this paper aims not to study sadra’s viewpoint on the language of qur’an but aims to offer sadra’s division of and criticisms on the different approaches to the language of qur’an. therefore, this study has been conducted on the negative dimension and has a critical attitude and is not going to study on the positive dimension and to explain sadra’s viewpoint; although recognition of this negati...

This article discusses five college students’ experiences in a simulated fullimmersion, Arabic-speaking language village and the impact of that experience on learners’ beliefs about the power of collaborative learning, the critical importance of cultural awareness, the efficacy of learning languages within a functioning community of practice, and the utility of role play and experiential learni...

We survey some critical issues arising in the ubiquitous computing paradigm, in particular the interplay between context-awareness and security. We then overview a language-based approach that addresses these problems from the point of view of Formal Methods. More precisely, we briefly describe a core functional language extended with mechanisms to express adaptation to context changes, to mani...