The present paper aimed at highlighting the judicious incorporation of literary genres (i.e. novel, short story/fiction, drama, and poetry) as a supposedly inspiring teaching technique and an allegedly potent learning resource into ESL/EFL curricula. The rationale behind this pedagogical inclusion is to promote both teaching and learning effectiveness through capitalizing intensively on the gen...

Theory, assessment, and instruction in the field of human abilities have tended to emphasize intelligence at the expense of wisdom and creativity. Were these three abilities indistinguishable, such an emphasis would be understandable and acceptable. But a review of the literature as well as data I have recently collected suggest that the three abilities are distinguishable, and that there are i...

Purpose – With academic institutions’ adoption of Course/Learning Management Systems (CMS), librarians are increasingly providing content through this delivery method. This study aims to identify practical information for librarians considering CMS content development or re-evaluation of online offerings. Design/methodology/approach – Academic libraries with health sciences information literacy...

The aim of this study is to analyze the publications in literature on differentiated instruction. 667 published various sources Web Science database until November 2020 were analyzed using bibliometric analysis method. Analyzes made with Vos viewer software. Common keywords used by authors, bibliographic coupling countries, institutions, sources, authors and co-citation references visualized vi...

The objectives of this study were (a) to examine the writing performance of L2 learners on the level-specific tasks based on Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and (b) to study the likely difference between students' self-assessed level of writing and those reported by raters. The study was conducted with 138 Iranian students at BA and MA levels in Alborz Institute of Higher Educatio...

This paper presents an adaptive assessment system that adapts itself to the specific conditions of each student, modeled by means of a Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). This approach implies to see the monitoring and assessment as a teaching-learning tool and not only as an measuring mechanism. The Artificial Intelligence field, in particular the MAS approach plays a crucial role in the utilization of...

Of paramount importance in the study of cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) is the absence of tests developed for small-scale diagnostic purposes. Currently, much of the research carried out has been mainly on large-scale tests, e.g., TOEFL, MELAB, IELTS, etc. Even so, formative language assessment with a focus on informing instruction and engaging in identification of student’s strengths and...