the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of weblog task assessment on iranian efl learners’ reading ability. to this purpose, a group of 30 english language students (both male and female) in rozaneh language institute in najafabad were selected based on their performance on the opt. the researchers tried to select a homogeneous sample in terms of age factor and proficiency level...

Background. Despite the growing interest of second language acquisition (SLA) researchers in languaging process, a few studies have been done on its dynamic attributes various writing tasks.
 Purpose. This study investigated how online written (WL) might impact English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners’ performance form-focused tasks with production-based and comprehension-based output ...

We explore the conjecture that engaging teachers with activities which feature mathematical practices from past (history-focused tasks) and in today’s mathematics classrooms (mathtasks) can promote teachers’ problematizing of its pedagogy. Here, we sample evidence discursive shifts observed as twelve engage a set (PA) – three rounds history-focused mathtask combinations during four–month postgr...

Developing reading comprehension ability is an important aspect in acquisition of a language. The  present  study  focused  on  improving  reading  comprehension  ability  through  Task-based Instruction  (TBI).  TBI  is  a  methodology  that  develops  from  a  focus  on  classroom  tasks.  The participants of the study were 135 Iranian female students at different levels selected from high sc...

Laser-enhanced cavitation during high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) was studied in vivo using a small animal model. Laser light was employed to illuminate the sample concurrently with HIFU radiation. The resulting cavitation was detected with a passive cavitation detector. The in vivo measurements were made under different combinations of HIFU treatment depths, laser wavelengths, and HIFU...

Search tasks, comprising a series of search queries serving a common informational need, have steadily emerged as accurate units for developing the next generation of task-aware web search systems. Most prior research in this area has focused on segmenting chronologically ordered search queries into higher level tasks. A more naturalistic viewpoint would involve treating query logs as convolute...