AIMS To investigate the association between frequency of visiting shops and noticing of tobacco point-of-sale (PoS) displays and the development of susceptibility to smoking, or smoking uptake, in secondary school students. DESIGN Two surveys of a school based cohort study carried out in 2011 and 2012. SETTINGS Nottinghamshire, UK. PARTICIPANTS A total of 2270 children aged 11-16 years fr...

in a study on 685 healthy women who have been using birth control pills for a period of about 27 months, the following results were found: 1.blood pressure has been increased with a rate of 1.416%. 2. the increase in arterial wood pressure is on both the systolic and diastolic blood pressures. 3. it seems that hypertension results from the estrogen which is present in the pills. 4. this hyperte...

In 1967, more than fifty years ago, Corder introduced the concept of “input” in second language acquisition (SLA) research field. 1985, Krashen “comprehensible input hypothesis.” 1990, Schmidt “noticing hypothesis” [1]. Today, is becoming and popular on acquisition. This paper tries to connect theories about noticing hypothesis hope that clear definition can be helpful guide teaching accordingly.

Abstract Teacher noticing, a situation-specific part of teachers’ professional competence, has gained much importance in the past two decades. The construct is believed to play crucial role transfer knowledge and skills into teaching performance. However, there little empirical evidence on how length experience affects development expertise teacher noticing. In particular, research been conduct...

Second language (L2) communication strategies (CSs) have traditionally been dealt with through either interactional or psychological perspectives. However, this paper is a critical attempt to question the status of the particular kinds of psycholinguistic and interactional approaches that currently dominate the field of second language acquisition (SLA). In this way, it expands the significance...

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 was an attempt to explore the role that the increased perceptual saliency of l2 input features or output flaws and hereby promoting l2 learners’ noticing (through planned instructional activities) can play in the learners’ use of correct english intonation patterns. the participants were 80 iranian efl students attending four intact classes, two low-intermediate and two upper-interme...

OBJECTIVES To examine the salience of tobacco marketing on postsecondary campuses and student support for tobacco control policies. METHODS Face-to-face surveys were conducted with 1690 students at 3 universities in southwestern Ontario. RESULTS Virtually all (97%) students reported noticing tobacco marketing in the past year, and 35% reported noticing marketing on campus. There was strong ...