background and purpose: today, according to busy doctors, one of the ways to keep their medical information up to date is the use of evidence-based medicine (ebm). the purpose of this study was to determine the educational needs of ebm in clinical faculty members working in shahid beheshti university hospitals in tehran and the prioritization of these needs . methods: the study was descriptive,...

one of the major criticisms leveled at task-based language teaching (tblt), despite its countless merits, is developing fluency at the cost of accuracy. the post-task stage affords a number of options to counteract this downside through task repetition and task recycling. these two options are considered to positively affect learners' oral performance in terms of fluency, accuracy, and complexi...

One of the most neglected areas of biomedical Text Mining (TM) is the development of systems based on carefully assessed user needs. We investigate the needs of an important task yet to be tackled by TM — Cancer Risk Assessment (CRA) — and take the first step towards the development of TM for the task: identifying and organizing the scientific evidence required for CRA in a taxonomy. The taxono...

In the present study, two different models of task complexity; namely, limited attentional capacity model and cognition hypothesis were examined. To this end, the manipulation of cognitive task complexity along +/- single task dimension on Iranian EFL learners’ production in terms of fluency was explored. Based on the results of the writing test of TOFEL (2004), 48 learners were selected as the...

researchers of language teaching believe that teaching method has a lot of impact on the speed and depth of learning. the importance of this is so obvious on teaching some persian language structures which are syntactically and semantically complicated. one of these structures is conditional sentences which has been considered in this study. here we tried to teach conditional sentences via both...

This study investigated the relationship between task-based teacher training and novice English language teachers’ cognitions implementations of tasks in Honduran bilingual schools. After participating a four-week program on teaching, teachers with little or no prior teaching experience designed lessons were video-recorded implementing those learners ages 5 to 12. Following classroom observatio...