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...

This study was carried out to examine the effects of task complexity on text easibility and coherence in narrative writing EFL learners. Data were collected from 41 Turkish learners during a course. Task operationalized at two levels as complex simple based resource-dispersing variables Robinson’s Triadic Componential Framework, +/- structure. Accordingly, colorful picture first illustrated boa...

Social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia are well documented and related to functional outcome. Current social cognition measures are often not psychometrically validated, too heterogeneous for standardization, and focus principally on one domain of social cognition rather than the simultaneous activation of multiple domains. Also, few if any allow for personalization of stimuli and interpret...

This study investigated if the story retelling and comprehension task Ana Gets Lost, that is frequently used with school-aged children, has clinical utility with a preschool population. The study also assessed the task's concurrent and predictive validity with norm-referenced tests of language performance. A total of 92 typically-developing 4-year-old children participated. After 12 months, 57 ...

Existing approaches to narrative construction tend to apply basic engineering principles of system design which rely on identifying the most relevant feature of the domain for the problem at hand, and postulating an initial representation of the problem space organised around such a principal feature. Some features that have been favoured in the past include: causality, linear discourse, underl...

As the healthcare industry transitions from paper to electronic medical records (EMRs), medical informatics researchers face the task of ensuring that the electronic presentation of the information remains usable and effective while capitalizing on the ability of EMRs to tailor information to different users. In our research, we focus on utilizing formal cognitive science methodology to guide t...

This study investigated if the story retelling and comprehension task Ana Gets Lost, that is frequently used with school-aged children, has clinical utility with a preschool population. The study also assessed the task’s concurrent and predictive validity with norm-referenced tests of language performance. A total of 92 typically developing 4-year-old children participated. After 12 months, 57 ...

Two studies explored the influence of culture on the relationship between British and East Asian adults' autobiographical remembering of trauma film material and associated intrusions. Participants were shown aversive film clips to elicit intrusive images. Then participants provided a post-film narrative of the film content (only Study 1). In both studies, participants reported intrusive images...

The use of corpora, and especially annotated corpora, is key to advancing the scientific understanding of narrative. I seek here to answer several interrelated questions: what corpora have been used in computational and cognitive research on narrative to date? What are the general characteristics of these corpora, and are they adequate for the overall task of a scientific understanding of narra...