abstractthe present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate iranian efl learners' writing ability. for this study, 84 iranian learners, studying english as a foreign language in bayan institute, iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control ...

This article presents data from a qualitative case study examining secondary ESL students' attitudes toward and perceptions of a collaborative e-mail exchange between a Form 4 (10 grade) ESL class in Hong Kong and an 11 grade English class in Iowa. The exchange was based on a researcher-designed instructional model, utilizing widely accepted theories and methods for modern second language instr...

Across the United States veterans’ writing groups have provided spaces for veterans to write about war and military service, reflect, heal, release stress, create work that they share with family, fellow veterans, sometimes larger audiences, in form of public readings, literary journals, book publications. In this roundtable, a multivoiced narrative includes two civilian group leader voic...

PURPOSE We examine the processes and document the calendar time required to activate phase II and III clinical trials by an oncology group: the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG). METHODS Setup steps were documented by (a) interviewing ECOG headquarters and statistical center staff, and committee chairs, (b) reviewing standard operating procedure manuals, and (c) inspecting study recor...

although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in l2 writing research. the small number of previous studies (e.g., li, 2007; brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

Group awareness has become important in improving the usability of real-time, distributed, collaborative writing systems. However, the current set of implemented awareness mechanisms is insufficient in providing extensive and comprehensive awareness in collaborative authoring. Certainly, current mechanisms, such as telepointers and multi-user scrollbars, have contributed greatly in providing aw...

The Effects of Cooperative, Competitive, and Individual Learning on Students' Physical Readiness A. Shams, Ph.D.  B. Abdoli, Ph.D. P. ShamsipoorDehkordi, Ph.D. To compare the effectiveness of three learning styles in physical education, a sample of 120 male sixth graders was randomly selected using cluster sampling method and then randomly assigned to three experimenta...