Meta-discourse markers are an inevitable part of oral proficiency which improve both the quality and comprehension of learners’ speech. While studies of oral meta-discourse have been conducted since the 1980s in a European or US context, they have remained relatively untouched in Iran. Therefore, this study aimed to seek the impact of both explicit and implicit teaching of formal meta-discourse...

Title of Dissertation: Applications of Dweck’s Model of Implicit Theories to Teachers’ Self-Efficacy and Emotional Experiences Alexis Ymon Williams, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed By: Professor Kathryn R. Wentzel Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology The current study explored Dweck’s (1999; Dweck & Leggett, 1988) model of implicit theories in the context of teaching...

Finnish mathematics teaching: a case of uniquely implicit didactics: Keynote presentation. This paper reports on a qualitative analysis of video-taped mathematics lessons taught by four case study teachers, defined locally as effective, in a provincial university city in Finland. The aim was to examine how teachers conceptualise and present mathematics to their learners and, in so doing, unders...

The problem of second language acquisition and its true nature is a controversial issue in second language teaching. Different camps propose different methods to approach the very nature of second language acquisition. Among these, Stephen Krashen and his advocates raised the issue of implicit second language teaching and the prominence of input that are expounded in the present article. In so ...

We present an integrated framework that permits implicit task learning and kinesthetic teaching during the execution of robotic tasks in cooperation with humans. The proposed system combines physical human-robot interaction, attentional supervision, multimodal interaction to support robot teaching and incremental task learning. We describe the overall system architecture discussing a task learn...

This study was an attempt to explore the beliefs of Iranian EFL teachers about the role of grammar in English language teaching in both state schools and private language institutes. Data were collected through a questionnaire developed by Burgess and Etherington (2002), which consisted of 11 main subscales and was divided into two sections. The first section dealt with approaches to grammar te...

University instructors’ goals for teaching are important quality. However, studies examining factors that shape goal adoption lacking. Using data from 785 instructors, we investigated whether implicit theories (ITs) about the malleability of intelligence constitute one such factor. Following achievement theory (AGT) and Dweck’s motivation framework, analysed differences in attributable to ITs, ...

Design becomes more and more the art of bringing together expertise and experts from different domains in creating future products. Synthetical knowledge and hands-on skills in design, especially in industrial design, is often implicit, hardly captured and modeled for remote education. The need of transferring implicit design knowledge using computer mediated learning tools, provides not only t...