This study was designated to examine the effectiveness of Computer-based intervention (CBI) on high school students’ reading performance and self-efficacy. Fifty high school students from 2 resource rooms were recruited. The students in the experimental group (CBI group) received training on the Kurzweil 3000 by the classroom teacher and the researcher and use the Kurzweil to do homework/course...

An increasing number of studies have demonstrated that a response in one task can be activated automatically on the basis merely of instructed stimulus-response (S-R) mappings belonging to another task. Such instruction-based response activations are considered to be evidence for the formation of S-R associations on the basis of the S-R mappings for an upcoming, but not yet executed, task. A cr...

Our combined task and instruction static scheduling algorithm implemented in the COINS compiler uses an Integer Linear Programming model to find a schedule for a program on a symmetric multiprocessor system-on-chip. We compare our work to state of the art approaches and on average we find a speedup as high as 1.49 compared to a static task scheduling approach without instruction scheduling. Dep...

To better understand tacit knowledge underlying experienced Web-Based Instruction designers’ performance, this study utilized Heuristic Task Analysis, a method developed for eliciting, analyzing, and representing expertise in complex cognitive tasks. Three experts, representing three post-secondary institutions offering online programs, were selected for interviews based on the following criter...

the purpose of the present study was to explore the effectiveness of raising iranian learners’ pragmatic awareness of intercultural rhetoric in enhancing their l2 writing ability, as well as their written complexity and accuracy. to this end, two 25-member groups of efl learners who were taking basic writing course at islamic azad university, roudehen branch, were selected based on their perfor...

Self-efficacy is the belief that someone can do work successfully. The study purposes to explore whether collaborative task-based instruction (TBI) empower EFL self-efficacy? uses a critical review, content analysis, and interpretation regarding five perspectives namely in terms (1) cognitive-interactionist, (2) psycholinguistics, (3) sociocultural, (4) psychological, (5) educational. results n...

The field of language teaching and learning is steadily moving toward task-based (TBLT), which uses tasks to manage classroom instruction requires students use their prior linguistic assets understand practice the target while carrying out tasks. However, there are few facts concerning how teachers perceive they actually in higher education. This study investigates view its role improving busin...

the present study was planned to investigate the efficiency of explicit teaching and adequacy of the l2 learners' exposure to l2 input in academic contexts in iran. the case at hand was the acquisition of referential, quasi and expletive subject pronouns, as three different types of obligatory subjects in english. 96 iranian efl learners were selected from two universities in isfahan. they were...