Building computational models is powerful in enabling sense making of mechanisms underlying phenomena. However, an important step towards building such understandings is noticing relevant patterns in the phenomena. In this paper, we examine student noticing in the context of a model-building activity in the EvoBuild project. EvoBuild is a construction toolkit designed for middle school students...

Understanding teacher cognition – and in particular teacher noticing poses significant challenges to researchers because of the ongoing nature of teaching. To overcome those challenges learning science researchers have used a variety of methods to help them understand how teachers reason and make decisions while teaching. In this symposium we describe a new digital technology that allows teache...

the purpose of the study was to activate the passive lexical knowledge through noticing and to investigate the effect of sentence writing as the post task of noticing activity on strengthening the effect of noticing. forty-two iranian female adult upper-intermediate english students of a state university in 2 homogenous groups participated in noticing the lexical items whose production were not...

this study investigated how awareness affected learners’ intake and production in relation to their cognitive styles. it is assumed that learners’ cognitive styles may affect their ability to notice particular features in the input and, consequently, their intake and production. adult learners of english were exposed to four english structures through four sets of problem-solving tasks, followe...

Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...

Previous research on implicit focus on form (FonF) has shown that target forms are not always noticed by learners, suggesting that externally-created salience (by the teacher) does not necessarily guarantee learners’ internally-generated salience (Sharwood Smith, 1991, 1993). In an attempt to explore ways of promoting both types of salience, an input enhancement study was conducted in order to ...

one of the most important and famous sciences in the field of tradition studies is the study of rejal (narrators of hadiths) which dealss with the narrators’ status to ensure that the narrated traditions (hadiths) are issued by the infallibles. mohammad taqi shoushtari was an outstanding contemporary biographical evaluation scientific who had critical viewpoint in this field. his qamoos al- rej...

Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...

Abstract This study aimed to shed light on young Iranian EFL students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (FSs). This pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in Shahrekord, Iran. Accordingly, based on ACTFL OPI test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as...

BACKGROUND Much attention has been directed towards the possible effects of e-cigarette advertisements on adolescent never smokers. However, e-cigarette advertising may also influence perceptions and behaviours of adult smokers. The aim of our study was to examine whether noticing e-cigarette advertisements is associated with current use of e-cigarettes, disapproval of smoking, quit smoking att...