this study investigated the effect of sequencing tasks from simple to complex along +/- reasoning demands on fluency in writing task performance of english as foreign language (efl) learners. the participants of this study included 90 intermediate efl learners from three intact class divisions at the islamic azad uni- versity, shahr-e-qods branch. they were distributed in three groups: experime...

this study investigated the impact of sequencing tasks from simple to complex along +/- reasoning demands on the fluency of writing task performance among efl learners. the participants of the study were 90 inter- mediate efl learners from three classes at islamic azad university, shahr-e-qods branch in iran. they were distributed in three groups: experimental a, experimental b, and a control g...

cognitive linguistics gives the most inclusive, consistent description of how language is organized, used and learned to date. cognitive linguistics contains a great number of concepts that are useful to second language learners.  if-clauses in english, on the other hand, remain intriguing for foreign language learners to struggle with, due to their intrinsic intricacies. efl grammar books are ...

: This study aims to explore the relationship between syntactic and lexical complexity and also the relationship between different aspects of lexical complexity. To this end, speech monologs of 35 Iranian high-intermediate learners of English on three different tasks (i.e. argumentation, description, and narration) were analyzed for correlations between one measure of sy...

This article reports on the findings of a study that investigated the impact of manipulating task performance conditions on listening task performance by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The study was designed to explore the effects of changing complexity dimensions on listening task performance and to achieve two aims: to see how listening comprehension task performance was aff...

Building on Robinson’s (2001, 2003) Cognition Hypothesis, Skehan’s (1998) Limited Attentional Capacity Model, and Kellog’s (1986) model of writing, this study examined the effect of task planning on the fluency, accuracy, and complexity of 60 Iranian EFL learners’ argumentative and narrative writings under different planning conditions. A quasi-experimental design with three levels of planning ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: HCI Eye-tracking Website complexity Cognitive load Task complexity Online shopping Online shopping is becoming one of the most popular applications on the Internet. Websites are the important interfaces in HCI (Human–Computer Interaction). Website design significantly affects online shopping behavior. This research used eye-tracker to track the eye-movement proce...

Gaming the system, a behavior where students disengage from a learning environment and attempt to succeed by exploiting properties of the system, has been shown to be associated with lower learning. Machine learned and knowledge engineered models have been created to identify gaming behaviors, but few efforts have been made to precisely identify how experts code gaming behaviors. In this paper,...

Based on the established framework of Cognitive Load Theory, the presented research focuses on the inspection of cognitive load factors in an interrupted learning task. The task itself is inspired from basic cognitive research and demands participants to learn abstract symbol combinations of varying complexity. In addition, they have to deal with interruptions while performing the task. Experim...