The current study was an attempt to investigate the effect of performing Focus on Form (FoF), Focus on Meaning (FoM), and Focus on Forms (FoFs) instructions on the development of collocational knowledge among Iranian intermediate EFL learners, and to explore any significant difference on the achievement of the participants' collocational knowledge among three groups. In so doing, 107 female int...

Due to the special (procedural) nature of the language (verbal communication) ‘knowledge’, the dominant trends in applied linguistics research in the last few decades have been advocating ‘acquisition’ rather than ‘learning’ activities where the main focus in SL & FL education should be on ‘meaning’ while some ‘focus-on-form’ being justified. But the ‘form’ to be ‘focused-on’ is mostly misconce...

In L2 development, the cognitive complexity of tasks plays a crucial role in task performance and language features produced. However, there have only been few studies addressing the impact of task complexity on EFL learners' attention to L2 system and form-focused self-repairs (FFS).This study explores the role of increasing cognitive task complexity in EFL learners' form-focused attention (FF...

In L2 development, the cognitive complexity of tasks plays a crucial role in task performance and language features produced. However, there have only been few studies addressing the impact of task complexity on EFL learners' attention to L2 system and form-focused self-repairs (FFS).This study explores the role of increasing cognitive task complexity in EFL learners' form-focused attention (FF...

We model the coordination of specialized tasks inside an organization as “attribute matching.” Using this method, we compare the performance of organizational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In our framework, organizational forms affect the information structure of an organization and thus the way to coordinate changes. Compared to the U-form, th...

original article   health, safety, and environment management are dedicated a vast area in which ergonomics aspects known as one of the related aspects. in the following case study, the occupational hygiene by ergonomic intervention is focused. one of the prevalent activities among industrial sectors' workers in the developing countries is manual lifting tasks and other related physical activit...