" The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' " Isaac Asimov (Science fiction novelist & scholar: 1920-1992) As the quote above illustrates, there are facets of the scientific process that are prompted by feelings of intuition. Although this notion may seem closer to stereotypes of art than science, the...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate students maj...

Abstract The present study uses an acoustic analysis to examine the effects of implicit and explicit pronunciation instruction on acquisition German final devoicing in L2 classroom. Twenty-nine English-speaking learners at a North American university were assigned or condition. Learner speech samples recorded, following pre/post/delayed-post-test design. Four correlates medial obstruent voicing...

This study examined the effects of explicit versus implicit instructions and feedback methods on motor learning perceived competence 9-to 13-year old students with special educational needs practicing a balancing task during physical education. The aim was to test if how type instruction were influenced by students' verbal visuospatial working memory capacities. significantly increased their pe...

This article is one of the first attempts to study mechanisms foreign language learning by children with DLD. We test effectiveness a cognate intervention aiming enhance cross-linguistic awareness Dutch-speaking primary-school pupils DLD, as part their English Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum. The participants were school subject in last three years special primary education Netherlands (ages ...

The shift of the microprocessor industry towards multicore architectures has placed a huge burden on the programmers by requiring explicit parallelization for performance. Implicit Parallelization is an alternative that could ease the burden on programmers by parallelizing applications “under the covers” while maintaining sequential semantics externally. This thesis develops a novel approach fo...

the necessity of conducting more studies addressing the development of pragmatic profciency and strong pragmatic awareness for english language learners has made the role of instruction and feedback in teaching pragmatic knowledge of utmost importance. the present study evaluates the relative effectiveness of four types of instruction for teaching some pragmatic markers including topic change m...