this study was inspired by vanpatten and uludag’s (2011) study on the transferability of training via processing instruction to output tasks and mori’s (2002) work on the development of talk-in-interaction during a group task. an interview was devised as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest to compare four intervention types for teaching the simple past passive: traditional intervention ...

This article deals with the analysis of the semantic content of the anonymous Russian-speaking forum 2ch.hk, different verbal means of expressing of the emotional state of aggression are revealed for this site, and aggression is classified by its directions. The lexis of different Russian-and Englishspeaking anonymous forums (2ch.hk and iichan.hk, 4chan.org) and public community “MDK” of the Ru...

The paper aims to propose to add pragmatic characteristic tags for lexis to actual tag set in monolingual dictionaries, and use them to make an automatic acception links on the Papillon database. We have three motivations for proposing it : First, information on pragmatics of lexis is, namely for non-native speakers, indispensable from user oriented viewpoint, in order to give whole information...

this study investigates and compares the efficacy of differentiated instruction and traditional-based instruction on enhancing iranian students’ reading comprehension. eight elementary, intermediate, and advanced classrooms from 1 language institute were chosen, and based on their performance on the pretests were further divided into 4 control and 4 treatment groups. flexible grouping, tiered i...

1. The framework The Functional Generative Description (FGD, see Sgall, 1967, Sgall et al., 1986) was applied as a general framework for the development of the valency theory (see Panevová, 1974-75, 1980, 1994) as well as for the design of the Czech syntactically annotated corpus (PDT, see Hajič, 1998, Hajičová et al., 2001). Valency is understood as a lexico-syntactic attribute of a word – mor...

abstractthis study aimed to shed light on young iranian efl students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (fss). this pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in shahrekord, iran. accordingly, based on actfl opi test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as ...

the present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in iranian efl setting. sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on nelson language proficiency test. then, their grammar ability was measured based ...