the need for intercultural awareness and skills emerges strongly in both distance learning courses, and in social life in multicultural societies. the study of online language transactions is therefore an important aspect of the emerging culture and sociolinguistics of computer mediated communication. the research reported in this paper concerns perceptions held by students in an iranian univer...

this research aimed to examine the effect of sequential stimuli technique on acquisition, retention and transfer of ocular motor sequence. first sequential stimuli, time record, response error software was designed. 60 right-handed novices (15-18 years) were divided into five groups (blocked – explicit, blocked – implicit, random – explicit, random-implicit and control). all groups performed a ...

This study aims to compare the effects of four types of FFI on second language vocabulary learning. To do so, the study adopted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design, including five groups, each receiving a distinct treatment. The participants were 80 fourth-grade male students ranging in age from 17 to 19. Before the treatment phase, the participants took a researcher-made test of vocab...

introduction: recent evolutions in medical education and trend to specialization have led to serious concern about the quality of undergraduate education especially in main medical universities. according to medical education literature, outcome-based curriculum development seems more suitable for clinical phase rotations. in this article we present our experience in planning an outcome-based 2...

Cooperative learning has widely been used as a teaching method in English class around the world,and has attracted worldwide attention for its remarkable achievement. This study was an attemptto investigate the effects of an optimization method named genetic algorithm to determine optimalcomplementary learning clusters on Iranian EFL learners' English proficiency. The subjects of thismixed meth...