Authoring tools have evolved over the last decade based on technological and pedagogical innovations, from authoring bounded, programcontrolled learning systems such as Computer-Based Instruction (CBI) to authoring unbounded, learner-centered environments such as Web-Based Instruction (WBI). This paper discusses the current state of authoring tools and their pedagogical effect on the developmen...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate students maj...

The purpose of this research is to design a learning media product in the form game, called Nurse Card (KaPe). This game designed using Content Based Instruction (CBI) approach where KaPe integrates English material into Nursing Science which includes basic nursing actions and disease diagnosis. method used study Research Development stages need analysis, design, evaluation, testing. subjects w...

while learners’ ability to speak academic language develops over time in content-based programs, the development of their nonacademic language appears to lag behind. students’ speaking in content-based (cb) classrooms is confined to an academic discourse style. in the researchers’ point of view, the gap of less amount of nonacademic speaking can be bridged by the application of the conceptual f...