This study investigates the effect of formative exams and communicative grammar teaching strategies on students’ oral response-ability. research had a 2x2 factorial experimental design where 80 third-year university students were assigned using multistage cluster probability random sampling. The data analyzed two-way covariance analysis (ANCOVA) to test hypotheses. outcomes demonstrated that ta...

Lexicalized Well-Founded Grammar (LWFG) is a recently developed syntacticsemantic grammar formalism for deep language understanding, which balances expressiveness with provable learnability results. The learnability result for LWFGs assumes that the semantic composition constraints are learnable. In this paper, we show what are the properties and principles the semantic representation and gramm...

In this paper we discuss how computers can be deployed to support teaching deductive reasoning at university level. These considerations led to the development of the interactive theorem proving assistant and learning environment WinKE. We start out by describing common difficulties in teaching logic and deductive reasoning and thereby justify the need for computer support in that field. We ide...

Form-focused instruction occupies an important position in China’s secondary schools. However, middle school English teaching has been criticized for the sustainability of form-focused instruction. The new Curriculum Standards suggest that grammar should be integrated into communicative activities, but no precise guidance is provided on how to integrate activities. This study investigates teach...

Article History The paper received on: 30/03/2014 Accepted after peer-review on: 13/05/2014 Published on: 01/06/2014 Teaching and learning a foreign language like English is not easy task. The situation become more difficult when the learners are primary school children and teaching and learning focus is grammar, an activity often regarded as ‘boring, ‘uninteresting’ and ‘’tedious’. However, on...