abstract the present study examined the effect of genre-based tasks on efl learners' speaking performance and probed whether genre-based tasks may empower efl learners to perform better on speaking tests. a further concern of the study was to explore whether the effect of genre-based tasks on speaking ability of efl learners varied across different age groups, i.e. teenagers (13-16 years o...

The complex-arithmetic performance of three different populations was tested: Flemish-speaking Belgians; Englishspeaking Canadians; and Chinese-speaking Chinese participants currently living in Canada. All participants solved complex addition problems (e.g., 58 + 73) under no-load and load conditions, in which one component of working memory (either the central executive or the phonological loo...

Abstract Guided by the ARCS motivation model, this paper applies theory of strategy design to blended teaching model college English listening and speaking courses. From perspectives resource selection, goal setting, task decomposition, organization evaluation method construction, analyzes how improve online offline effect

In this study we examine how native language, sex, and college major interact to influence accuracy and preferred strategy when performing mental rotation (MR). Native monolingual Chinese and English speakers rotated 3-D shapes while maintaining a concurrent verbal or spatial memory load. For English speakers, male physical science majors were more accurate than social science majors and employ...

we inverse the surface gravity data to recover subsurface 3d density distribution with two strategy. in the first strategy, we assumed wide density model bound for inverting gravity data and in the second strategy, the inversion procedure have been carried out by limited bound density. wediscretize the earth model into rectangular cells of constant andunidentified density. the number of cells i...