Finding suitable ways to achieve particular learning goals is not an easy task, both in initial education and lifelong learning. To facilitate selection, personalisation and navigation of learning paths we propose to describe learning paths in a formal and uniform way by means of a learning path specification. This paper explains the rationale behind the Learning Path Specification. Based on a ...

GQM+Strategies is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to achieve overall business goals and assesses the achievement of such goals. Strategies are extracted from business goals based on rationales (contexts and assumptions). Using the proposed approach, which refines the GQM+Strategies model by extracting rationales based on the analysis of ...

This study describes the communication strategies in English used by first-level students of Education Study Program at STKIP PGRI Pacitan which can be seen their interlanguage production. The research data is form interlanguge they produce when performing oral communication. Data collection techniques are elicitation and documentation. were analyzed qualitatively. results show that there three...

It is hard to select and produce appropriate semantic formulas of apologizing for paying off violation social norms restore harmony. seems that it even harder realize such processes selection production in a non-native language. The study three folds; namely, examines the realization apology strategies by students senior Boarding School Arabic English as language, effects on contextual factors ...

INTRODUCTION Healthcare leaders need operational strategies that support organizational learning for continued improvement and value generation. The learning health system (LHS) model may provide leaders with such strategies; however, little is known about leaders' perspectives on the value and application of system-wide operationalization of the LHS model. The objective of this project was to ...

the present study is an attempt to explore the effect of one of the pragmatic elements of discourse (namely the conceptualizable agent) on overpassivization of english unaccusative verbs. through employing the questionnaire originally used by ju, (2000), 206 iranian intermediate and advanced english majors were asked to choose the more grammatical form (active or passive) in target sentences wi...

Having focused previously on attention, cognitively oriented investigations of interlanguage variation and development are turning toward other possible explanatory variabies, such as pianning. The present study reports on an experiment in which two groups of 20 Japanese learners of English as a second language performed two monologic production tasks with and without time for planning. It was ...

Early models of procedural learning assumed actors were isolated, model-based thinkers. More recently, learning techniques have become more sophisticated as this assumption has been replaced with more realistic ones. To date, however, there has been no thorough investigation of multiple, heterogeneous, situated agents who learn from the pragmatics of their domain rather than from a model. This ...