the purpose of the present study was to provide empirical support for the construct of the involvement load hypothesis (ilh ) in an efl context. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 4 intact groups consisting of 126 intermediate-level students participated in this experiment. in order to ensure that the participants were at the same level of english language proficiency, the nelson test was adm...

Complete involvement of learners in their learning environment has the potential to promote better absorption of knowledge, through pedagogic mechanisms such as experiential learning. To support such approaches within the domain of cultural heritage, this article discusses the deployment of tactile perception as a part of an ongoing development of a multimodal learning platform to complement le...

Web-based learning resources (WBLRs) are potentially powerful tools for enhancing teaching and learning processes in school education. They can provide teachers and learners with a wide range of new and exciting experiences that are not possible in a traditional classroom. However, WBLRs are still the domain of technical and software experts rather than teachers and learners. As a result, much ...

Using podcasts in higher education has caught more and more attention among educators and researchers, but there is still a strong need for research and academic publications to focus on certain issues, such as the role of the learners. Instead of lecturers (teachers, scientists, and experts), learners (students, trainees or pupils) produce a podcast with a specific content called learner-creat...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) and masked translation priming served to examine the time-course of form and meaning activation during word recognition in second language learners. Targets were repetitions of, translations of, or were unrelated to the immediately preceding prime. In Experiment 1 all targets were in the participants' L2. In Experiment 2 all targets were in the participants' L1. ...

this paper aims at studying governance and distribution of autonomies in tehran city islamic council in the process of performing intra/inter-organizational functions. according to current theories on governance, there are three types of governance according to the kinde of involvement. authority involvement, interactive involvement and persuasion involvement, in tehran city islamic council in ...