Strategy-focused instruction is one of the most effective approaches to improve writing skills. It aims to teach developing writers strategies that give them executive control over their writing processes. Programs under this kind of instruction tend to have multiple components that include direct instruction, modeling and scaffolded practice. This multi-component nature has two drawbacks: it m...

Instructional labs are fundamental to an undergraduate physics curriculum, but their possible learning goals vast with limited evidence support any particular goal. In this study, we evaluate the efficacy of different and structures on students’ critical thinking skills views about experimentation, using extensive database survey responses from over 20 000 students at 100 institutions. Here, sh...

this study reports an experiment conducted to investigate the effectiveness of implementing mi-inspired instruction in an efl context. to this end, a group of ten intermediate female students took part in a quasi-experimental study. at the beginning of the experiment, multiple intelligences survey (armstrong, 1993) was administered to determine the participants’ mi profiles. the participants we...

this study investigated the amount of incidental vocabulary learning through comprehension-focused reading of short stories and explicit instruction to this goal.  forty male high school students were selected randomly, and divided into two groups of twenty.  one group of these students was given five 400-word-level short stories to read with the purpose of comprehension, and the students in th...

This experimental study evaluated the possible effects of textual input- based enhancement on the acquisition of passive form on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners. Sixty Iranian EFL learners at the pre-intermediate level of proficiency were randomly assigned into three groups; two experimental group and one comparison group. The first experimental group received passages in which the passiv...

Abstract Recognizing the importance of multinational telecollaboration and form-focused instruction in computer-assisted language learning teacher education, this article investigates teaching English grammar through a seven-week-long telecollaborative project with 41 pre-service teachers from United States (US), Poland, China. The was pedagogical intervention which US participants taught to th...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of concordance-based material for an EFL problem—misordering in expressions of measurement. A specifically designed preand posttest is developed for testing Thai students’ ability to use the expression. The sample comprises four groups of university students in their first and second years (two groups each). One first year group and one sophomore group ...