The Internet enables cheap, rapid, and large-scale distribution of software for evaluation purposes. It also presents hitherto unprecedented, and currently underutilized, opportunities for increasing user-developer communication in software development. For instance, the Internet can be used as a medium for collecting “direct” user feedback in the form of subjective user reports, as well as “in...

The path from sound to sense crosses several disciplinary boundaries. Unfortunately, compelling early demonstrations of categorical perception helped to create a historical wedge between speech and word recognition. This talk highlights some advantages of the reintegration of these fields. First, task-dependencies found in studies of speech perception suggest lexical processes as a more appropr...

Background. Writing is a complex skill, even more so, if the student does not handle generic structure of institutionalized practices imposed on Higher Education.
 Purpose. The purpose this study to determine effectiveness direct and metalinguistic focused written corrective feedback (WCF) information structuring connectors.
 Methods. This quantitative compares WCF in 39 subjects who ...

We compared sensorimotor adaptation in the visual and the auditory modality. Subjects pointed to visual targets while receiving direct spatial information about fingertip position in the visual modality, or they pointed to visual targets while receiving indirect information about fingertip position in the visual modality, or they pointed to auditory targets while receiving indirect information ...

This study uses linguistic output to identify cognitive processes of language learning, i.e. the internalization of specific language components and metalinguistic or metacognitive learning mechanisms. Given that these processes are present in discourse production, they indicate a significant role of speech production in foreign language learning. Furthermore, they serve as predictors of learni...

The sway of the pendulum in language pedagogy towards conscious learning processes marks the paramount role of metalinguistic awareness. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to compare the impact of teacher-oriented vs. learner-generated metalinguistic awareness activities on Iranian TEFL students’ writing accuracy. Sixty participants in three intact classes were randomly assigned a...

This study compared sentence acceptability judgments from young and healthy older adults and older adults with dementia due to probable Alzheimer's disease. Two types of sentences were contrasted: one type involved contrasts among verb alternations in which semantic distinctions between verbs regulate the acceptability of phrase structure variations; the second type involved contrasts among dir...