Systematic phonics instruction in first language education has recently received considerable research attention due to its critical role in facilitating phonological awareness and processing skills. However, little is known about the effects of systematic phonics instruction on foreign language reading and spelling in an EFL context. This study examined the effects of spelling-based phonics in...

abstractthe present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate iranian efl learners' writing ability. for this study, 84 iranian learners, studying english as a foreign language in bayan institute, iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control ...

THE present experiment is a replication of an earlier study by McNeil and Keislar (5) in which oral and non-oral methods of teaching read ing were investigated utilizing an autoinstructional device. In the present de sign, the procedures are similar to the earlier study but the conditions and materials are more akin to current classroom instruction; some changes were necessary in the transition...

The current article was an attempt to investigate the effect of semantic mapping strategy instruction on reading comprehension performance of EFL learners. To this end, thirty homogeneous Iranian intermediate EFL learners attending a language school in Bonab, Iran, were randomly assigned to two groups, one as the experimental and the other as the control. The experimental group received instruc...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Differentiated Instruction on the academic achievement of Senior Secondary One biology students. One research question and one null hypothesis guided the conduct of the study. The design was quasi experimental that employed a pretest, post-test non-randomised equivalent groups. A total of 67 biology students found in two intact classes in t...

An efficient method for simulating instruction sets is described. The method allows for compiled instruction set simulation using the macro expansion capabilities found in many languages. Additionally, we show how the semantics of the C case statement allows instruction branching to be incorporated in an efficient manner. The method is compared with conventional interpreted techniques and is sh...

The current study sought to explore the impact of SFL-oriented register instruction on Iranian EFL learner’ writing performance with a central focus on their English proficiency level. As its secondary aim, the study delved deeply into the learners’ perception of the register-based instruction. To these ends, 50 intermediate and 50 advanced Iranian EFL learners were selected randomly and assign...

Modern microprocessors schedule instructions dynamically in order to exploit instruction level parallelism. It is necessary to increase instruction window size for improving instruction scheduling capability. However, it is di cult to increase the size without any serious impact on processor performance, since the instruction window is one of the dominant deciding processor cycle time. The reas...