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 student...

The goal of the present study was to investigate the costs and benefits of different degrees of strategic parallel processing between two tasks. In a series of experiments with the dual-task flanker paradigm, participants were either instructed to process the tasks serially or in parallel, or--in a control condition--they received no specific instruction. Results showed that the participants we...

The study is based on the use of a flexible learning framework to help students improve information processes underlying strategy instruction in EFL listening. By exploiting the online videotext self-dictation-generation (video-SDG) learning activity implemented on the YouTube caption manager platform, the learning cycle was emphasized to promote metacognitive listening development. Two theorie...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the delivery method used in Personalize System of Instruction (PSI). Asynchronous in nature, the PSI model may provide viable alternatives m-learning platforms, while at the same time fulfilling some of the theories of social science research. Learning style types are also presented in this study. A strategic alignment model is measured against the learni...

The present study investigates two key aspects of analogical retrieval: (1) whether other activities different from problem solving automatically elicit a search for analogical sources, and (2) whether strategic search can overcome the superficial bias observed in classical experiments. In Experiment 1, participants had to generate persuasive arguments for a target situation under three experim...

of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science DISSOCIATING COMPONENTS OF COGNITIVE CONTROL USING HIGHDENSITY EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS: IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTROL, CONFLICT PROCESSING, AND ERROR MONITORING By Michael James Larson May 2004 Chair: William M. Perlstein Major Department: Clinical ...

Temporal and strategic factors that might influence the transformation of verbal task rules into functional stimulus-response associations were investigated in three experiments. In a dual task paradigm of the ABBA type participants were presented new S-R instructions for the A-task at the beginning of each trial. On varying proportions of trials No-go signals rendered the instructed A-task map...

this study was inspired by vanpatten and uludag’s (2011) study on the transferability of training via processing instruction to output tasks and mori’s (2002) work on the development of talk-in-interaction during a group task. an interview was devised as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest to compare four intervention types for teaching the simple past passive: traditional intervention ...