A sizeable body of research into instructed pragmatics roots from the noticing hypothesis: comparing im- plicit and explicit instruction. It is only recently that other theories, including the output hypothesis, have been researched as possible explanations of interlanguage pragmatic development. Pursuing the same line of research, the present study addressed the impact of collaborative o...

People sometimes fail to notice salient unexpected objects when their attention is otherwise occupied, a phenomenon known as inattentional blindness. To explore individual differences in inattentional blindness, we employed both static and dynamic tasks that either presented the unexpected object away from the focus of attention (spatial) or near the focus of attention (central). We hypothesize...

A new cognitive theory of innovation, the Obscure Features Hypothesis (OFH), states that almost all innovative solutions result from two steps: (1) noticing a rarely noticed or never-before noticed (i.e., obscure) feature of the problem’s elements, and (2) building a solution based on that obscure feature (McCaffrey 2011). Structural properties of the human semantic network make it possible to ...

The chapters in this section explore professional noticing in contexts that include both middle and high school preand in-service teachers. The authors employ different theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and examine the professional noticing activities of their participants using different research methodologies. To try to tie together these different intellectual contributions, we present ...

Open learner models (OLM) are learner models that are accessible to the learner they represent. Many examples now exist, often with the aim of prompting learner reflection on their knowledge. In language learning, this relates to research on noticing and awareness-raising. We here introduce an open learner model to investigate the potential of OLMs to facilitate noticing. Results suggest that a...

Building computational models is powerful in enabling sense making of mechanisms underlying phenomena. However, an important step towards building such understandings is noticing relevant patterns in the phenomena. In this paper, we examine student noticing in the context of a model-building activity in the EvoBuild project. EvoBuild is a construction toolkit designed for middle school students...

Understanding teacher cognition – and in particular teacher noticing poses significant challenges to researchers because of the ongoing nature of teaching. To overcome those challenges learning science researchers have used a variety of methods to help them understand how teachers reason and make decisions while teaching. In this symposium we describe a new digital technology that allows teache...

the purpose of the present study was to determine whether noticing through input enhancement had any impact on the acquisition of english conditional sentences in iranian efl learners. two intact classes with 26 female students in each were chosen. a proficiency test administered at the commencement of the study showed that the two groups were homogeneous in terms of their language proficiency....