A central goal of instruction is to enable learners to transfer acquired knowledge to future situations. For elementary school children in middle-high-SES schools, ”explicit” instruction on the Control of Variables Strategy (CVS) that emphasizes understanding of the rationale for CVS has proven to be effective at promoting transfer to different contexts, even after extended time delays. However...

Abstract This paper describes a close-up investigation of four advanced language learners’ engagement with strategy instruction (SI) materials specially designed to enhance efforts fine-tune comprehension and production academic vocabulary. The learners first completed measure learning style, then provided introspective retrospective verbal report data log entries during after each interactive ...

There is a bulk of studies supporting the positive effect of strategy instruction on reading comprehension. This study examined the effect of two reading strategies (i.e., false correction and inference strategy) on English reading comprehension of Iranian paramedical students, using a pretest, posttest, control group design. It also surveyed their attitudes toward the effect and usefulness of ...

Instruction dependency introduced by conditional branch instructions, which is resolved only at run-time, can have severe performance impact on pipelined machines. A variety of strategies are in wide use to minimize this impact. Additional instruction-traffic generated by these branch-strategies can also have an adverse effect on the system performance. Therefore, in addition to the likely redu...