Background: The present study was conducted with the aim of developing a game-based cognitive-behavioral educational package and determining its effectiveness on improving the receptive language disorders and social adjustment of bilingual children. Methods:  The current study was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of the nature of the data, it was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post...

Abstract Genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. Genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. The present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their reading...

The study investigated differences in the use of multiple-choice test-taking strategies by Iranian EFL learners regarding reading comprehension ability. Reading is the most important academic language skill that receives the particular focus in second or foreign language teaching; tests are also regularly applied to assess academic performance. This paper sought to investigate differences in th...

Aiming at improving software quality, as well as reducing the costs of testing process, we developed TaRGeT, a Model-Based Testing (MBT) tool that automatically generates test cases from use case scenarios written in natural language. In this paper we present TaRGeT and show quantitative and qualitative results of the tool's usage in two case studies inside Motorola Brazil Test Center (BTC).

Throughout the years, many model description languages have been used in different model-based testing tools, however, all these languages are quite unfamiliar to test engineers. In this paper, we propose TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation 3), the nowadays most popular and widely spread test definition language to be used for this purpose and give two alternative approaches how this coul...