Though the use of ICT in the foreign language classroom is omnipotent and a wide variety of CALL applications are implemented during class time, little research has been conducted on the use of interactive response systems to aid acquisition. In an aim to ascertain whether the use of an interactive response system, namely JustVote, would enable students to perform better when completing compute...

This paper presents an experiment concerning the relative effectiveness of computer assisted comprehension practice and production practice in the acquisition of a second language. Two computer programs were developed: (a) an input-focused program providing students with explicit grammatical instruction and comprehension exercises and (b) an output-focused program providing the same grammatical...

Structured data is accumulated rapidly in many applications, e.g. Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, social network analysis, natural language processing and text mining. Designing and analyzing algorithms for handling these large collections of structured data has received significant interests in data mining and machine learning communities, both in the input and output domain. However, it is n...

With the aim of more emphasis on pragmatics and its inclusion in EFL classrooms, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of obtrusive and unobtrusive focus on form instructions on learners’ pragmatic performance of criticizing in English. 54 Iranian learners, all at intermediate level, participated in this study, and they were divided into three groups: 19 participants receiving o...

Background and Aim: Prevention of dental caries and periodontal disease is an important health priority. Oral health instruction can help to achieve this goal. This study sought to assess the effect of a short-term, targeted, well-structured comprehensive oral health instruction on the level of the knowledge and behavior of patients. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted on 120 patie...

A central argument of this paper is that there is a common basis for the failure of many instructional systems. The claim is that these deficiencies in the outcomes of learning are strongly influenced by underlying biases and assumptions in the design of instruction which represent the instructional domain and its associated performance demands in an unrealistically simplified and well-structur...

The focus of this research is on how people blend knowledge gained through explicit instruction with knowledge gained through experience. The product of this work will be a cognitively plausible computational learning model which integrates instructed learning with inductive generalization from examples. The success of this model will require the attainment of both a technical and a scientiic g...

We seek to automatically generate multilingual technical documentation from a structured KB. One technique we use is the qualitative simulation of instruction steps in order to derive additional hints and warnings automatically. In order to allow for the qualitative simulation of the instruction steps we propose a declarative executable action representation, with specialization and inheritance...