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...

reconfigurable instruction set processors allow customization for an application domain by extending the core instruction set architecture. extracting appropriate custom instructions is an important phase for implementing an application on a reconfigurable instruction set processor. a custom instruction (ci) is usually extracted from critical portions of applications and implemented on a reconf...

the present study investigated the potential of implementing reading strategy instruction in raising learner readers' awareness of reading strategies,  extending the range of strategies they employed and enhancing their reading comprehension ability. to conduct the study, 90 female pre-university students majoring in natural sciences were selected based on a convenient sampling procedure. after...

The purpose of this study was to decode the hidden views and sentiments from collated written responses Eastern Samar State University’s Program Heads regarding supervision instructions amidst COVID-19 pandemic. This utilized Exploratory Sequential Mixed Method explore understand perspective or University program heads towards instruction in midst Data were collected/collated participants indir...

abstractthis 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 ...

the aim of the current study was to examine the effect of metacognitive instruction on efl learners’ metacognitive awareness of listening strategies, listening comprehension, and oral language proficiency. fifty students of two upper-intermediate english courses participated in the study and were sampled as the experimental and control groups. for sixteen weeks the experimental group participat...