this article reports on the findings of a study that investigated the impact of manipulating task performance conditions on listening task performance by learners of english as a foreign language (efl). the study was designed to explore the effects of changing complexity dimensions on listening task performance and to achieve two aims: to see how listening comprehension task performance was aff...

The traditional teaching method is already show its limitations that students from different backgrounds are still given the same contents at the same time, and they may only interest in part of a whole learning content. Such these contents couldn’t be used to provide the exact content to the learners and reused by other authoring tools and content management systems. In this paper, we propose ...

Openness has become a key feature in the discourse and practice of higher education in recent years as has its potential to drive innovation in teaching and learning practices. More often this discourse refers to the processes involved in learning such as in the phrase open and distance learning. Much less attention has been paid to the processes in teaching. The advent of the internet and its ...

one of the main concerns of iranian students who learnenglish is the fact that they cannot learn the different english rules ofnegative and interrogative tenses and hence suffer from numerous grammar rules.the present study is based on the researchers' experiences, who have beeneducated in linguistics, in teaching english to persian students. they applieda new teaching method (the rule tea...

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems aim to teach a language providing technology and motivation to the user. They allow us to implement pedagogical content, motivational techniques and corrective feedback. On this basis, we present Medieval Adventure, which is a CALL system that aims to teach Portuguese’s basic levels to adults. Medieval Adventure teaches a second language mainly...

The conceptual idea of the paper is that the use of digital biographical narratives in a foreign language classroom creates favorable conditions for the harmonious development and creative, cognitive, communicative and technological skills of students. The paper deals with the methods of teaching students to create digital biographical narratives about the life of outstanding personalities whic...

This paper discusses the potential for an extant interactive Web-based linguistic knowledge elicitation system to be exploited in the teaching of linguistic content and practices. This tool would support the learning of linguistics and the development of real-world linguistic skills by guiding students through the process of describing a language of their choice from scratch. This method of tea...