It is widely believed that the major purpose of foreign language learning is to master the speaking skill of that language. Learners even evaluate their foreign language learning on the basis of their achievement in speaking proficiency. This study discusses different teaching methodologies aimed at the development of task-based language learning, drama and the manifestation of scenario-based t...

Drawing on game-design principles and an underlying situated theoretical perspective, we developed and researched a 3D game-based curriculum designed to teach water quality concepts. We compared undergraduate student dyads assigned randomly to four different instructional design conditions where the content had increasingly level of contextualization: (a) expository textbook condition, (b) simp...

Our goal is to implement a program for the machine verification of textbook proofs. We study the task from both the linguistics and automated reasoning perspective and give an in-depth analysis for a sample textbook proof. We propose a framework for natural language proof understanding that extends and integrates state-of-the-art technologies from Natural Language Processing (Discourse Represen...

Textbooks play a vital role as the teaching and learning resources for both English Second Language (ESL) educators learners. A number of studies have been conducted to evaluate Malaysian EL textbooks. However, focused on vocabulary in CEFR primary school textbooks are still limited. Therefore, this research intends address identified gaps through evaluating presentation Get Smart Plus 4, textb...

We have designed several new lazy learning algorithms for learning problems with many binary features and classes. This particular type of learning task can be found in many machine learning applications but is of special importance for machine learning of natural language. Besides pure instance-based learning we also consider prototype-based learning, which has the big advantage of a large red...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of using vocabulary software on the vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. Participants of the study were 54 intermediate-level students (23 males and 31 females) learning English as a foreign language in Mehr Institute in Izeh who were selected after taking the Nelson English Language Test as a proficiency test. They were randomly divided into t...

Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) and Technique Feature Analysis (TFA) are two frameworks which operationalize depth of processing of a vocabulary learning task. However, there is dearth of research comparing the predictive power of the ILH and the TFA across second language (L2) vocabulary learning tasks. The present study, therefore, aimed to examine this issue across four vocabulary learning...

Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) and Technique Feature Analysis (TFA) are two frameworks which operationalize depth of processing of a vocabulary learning task. However, there is dearth of research comparing the predictive power of the ILH and the TFA across second language (L2) vocabulary learning tasks. The present study, therefore, aimed to examine this issue across four vocabulary learning...