Following previous studies reporting a beneficial effect for pre-task planning on learners' task performance, the present research takes into account the possible effects of directing learners' attention to meaning and form of language on their written production while they have one- and five-minute strategic planning time. The study randomly categorized 48 intermediate learners of English into...

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...

We prove that the ENO reconstruction and ENO interpolation procedures are stable in the sense that the jump of the reconstructed ENO point values at each cell interface has the same sign as the jump of the underlying cell averages across that interface. Moreover, we prove that the size of these jumps after reconstruction relative to the jump of the underlying cell averages is bounded. Similar s...

and Applied Analysis 3 exist and are bounded for a self-adjoint positive operator A. Here B 1 2 ( τA √ A 4 τ2A ) , K ( I 2τA 5 4 τA 2 )−1 . 2.2 Theorem 2.1. For any gk, 1 ≤ k ≤ N − 1, and fk,−N 1 ≤ k ≤ 0, the solution of problem 1.2 exists and the following formula holds: uk ( I − R2N )−1{[ R − R2N−k ] u0 [ RN−k − R k ][ Pu0 − τ 0 ∑ s −N 1 P N−1Gfs μ ] − [ RN−k − R k ] I τB 2I τB −1B−1 N−1 ∑ s ...

The initial-value problem for hyperbolic equation d2u(t)/dt2 +A(t)u(t) = f (t) (0 ≤ t ≤ T), u(0) = φ,u(0) = ψ in a Hilbert space H with the self-adjoint positive definite operators A(t) is considered. The second order of accuracy difference scheme for the approximately solving this initial-value problem is presented. The stability estimates for the solution of this difference scheme are establi...

This study examined the effects of cognitive task complexity increase on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) as well as the temporal distribution of the cognitive and metacognitive processes involved in computer-mediated L2 written production. To this end, the study employed a between-subjects experimental design with 85 EFL learners from a language learning institute in Iran. Participa...

Writing therapy studies have been predominantly uni-modal in nature; i.e., their central therapy task has typically been either writing to dictation or copying and recalling words. There has not yet been a study that has compared the effects of a uni-modal to a multi-modal writing therapy in terms of improvements to spelling accuracy. A multiple-case study with eight participants aimed to compa...

The broad development of the microand nano-technologies in the past few years increased the need of techniques capable of fabricating sub-micron structures with arbitrary surface profiles. Out of the several fabrication approaches (HEBS lithography, laser writing, etc.) the electron beam writing stands out as the one capable of the highest resolution, superior alignment accuracy and very small ...

The issue of whether or not to correct errors in students’ writing is controversial. Some scholars argue that error correction is helpful, while others argue that it is ineffective, perhaps even harmful. What is missing from the literature are studies about how error correction might affect the performance of specific types of students. This study, which included 140 undergraduate English major...