Abstract Task-based language teaching has received increased attention in second language research. However, the combination of structured input-based approach and task-based language teaching has not been examined in relation to L2 grammar learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the structured input-based tasks with and without explicit information impacted learners’ ...

this paper evaluates pedagogical grammar in the coursebooks of teaching persian non-iranian language learners. the study is based on communicative approach and pedagogical grammar. to evaluate the contents of those books, several checklists and grading scales were investigated and finally, an integrated checklist consisted of 20 questions was provided to be used in this study. in providing this...

One hundred and forty-four years elapsed between the publication of Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus, which opened the great scientific revolution of the XVII century, and the publication of Newton’s Principia, the final synthesis that brought that revolution to a spectacularly successful end. During those hundred and forty-four years, the basic grammar for understanding the physical world change...

P. Newmzrn IBM Pale Alto Scientific Center 1530 Page Mill Road Pale Alto, CA 94304, US/Y This paper discusses tim advantages for practical bi :, direclional grammars 6(combirfiug a lexical fbcus with the (}PEG-originated principle of immediatedominance/line.ar-precedence (I[)/1,P) rule partitioning. It. also outlines an implenlentation approach fbllowing these gafidelines. The approach is inspi...

Materials evaluation studies have constantly demonstrated that there is no one fixed procedure for conducting textbook evaluation studies. Instead, the criteria must be selected according to the needs and objectives of the context in which evaluation takes place. The speaking skill as part of the communicative competence has been emphasized as an important objective in language teaching. The pr...

Hundred and forty-four years have elapsed between the publication of Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus, which has opened the great scientific revolution of the XVII century, and the publication of Newton’s Principia, the final synthesis that has brought that revolution to a spectacularly successful end. During those hundred and forty-four years, the basic grammar for understanding the physical wor...

This is a report on the methods used and results obtained by the UW-Stanford team for the Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing (AESW) Shared Task 2016 on grammatical error detection. This team developed a symbolic grammar-based system augmented with manually defined mal-rules to accommodate and identify instances of highfrequency grammatical errors. System results were entered both for th...

Abstract Task-based language teaching has received increased attention in second language research. However, the combination of structured input-based approach and task-based language teaching has not been examined in relation to L2 grammar learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the structured input-based tasks with and without explicit information impacted learners’ ...

this study examines differences in non-native efl teachers’ beliefs about grammar and teaching grammar. the differences were sought across teachers’ work environment- private school versus state schools-, degree, gender, and teaching experience. a sample of 130 efl teachers teaching at junior high school, high schools, and private language institutes were randomly selected. the sample consisted...