This study investigates how different form-focused instruction (FFI) timing impacts English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ grammar development. A total of 169 Chinese middle school learners were assigned to four conditions randomly: control, before-isolated FFI, integrated and after-isolated FFI. The three experimental groups received treatments which combined form meaning with the passi...

In this paper we introduce the Delft-Java multithreaded processor architecture and organization. The proposed architecture provides direct translation capability from the Java Virtual Machine instruction set into the Delft-Java instruction set. The instruction set is a 32-bit RISC instruction set architecture with support for multiple concurrent threads and Java speci c constructs. The parallel...

This paper presents an approach to spatial specifications for Web information transformation. Extended from the Reserved Graph Grammar (RGG), a Spatial Graph Grammar (SGG) is proposed. The paper illustrates a detailed example that applies the SGG to transform a XML Web document to a WML structure for the display on mobile devices. The SGG formalism is general enough for a wide range of applicat...

This paper will present the preliminary findings of a pilot study. Participants were randomly assigned into one of two groups, those receiving instruction 1) with subtitles (redundant text); & 2) instruction without subtitles. A diagnostic test was used to categorize learners as 1) having symptoms consistent with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); or 2) non-ADHD learners. Two perf...

This study was motivated by the researchers’ goal to unfold the quality of the English translations of Persian tourism industry texts and discover the most frequent error patterns the Iranian non-native translators have committed in such texts. Thus, the following research questions were addressed: 1) Are the English versions of Persian tourist guidebooks and multimedia compact discs provided b...