Persian  learners  of  English  often  avoid  attending  to  audience  considerations,  which  brings them  lower  scores.  The  present  study  was  conducted  in  a  major  university  in  Iran  to  help Persian learners develop a sense of audience awareness in writing. Thirty five Persian students of English  were trained  with a focus on process-oriented instruction. The intended task was a...

Previous research indicated that stimulus-response congruency effects can be obtained in one task (the diagnostic task) on the basis of the instructed stimulus-response mappings of another task (the inducer task) and this without having executed the instructions of the inducer task once. A common interpretation of such finding is that instructed stimulus-response mappings are implemented into f...

As the labeling cost for different modules in task-oriented dialog (ToD) systems is high, a major challenge to learn tasks with least amount of labeled data. Recently, pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown promising results few-shot learning ToD. To better utilize power PLMs, this paper proposes Comprehensive Instruction (CINS) that exploits PLMs extra task-specific instructions. We des...

This research investigated effects of task types on the acquisition of English voice onset time (VOT) by Japanese university students with a short-term but intensive exposure to academic English. The data were collected from 11 Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) receiving English-medium instruction at a university level, 11 Japanese EFL learners enrolled in regular EFL cou...

Objective: This study evaluated the self-timed trial training for laparoscopic suturing. Methods: The set task involved grasping the suture, aligning the needle with a needle holder, passing the suture, making 3 knots, holding the 2 tails of the suture with one grasper, and cutting them. Trainees were given an instruction for suturing and reducing their suturing time. The same instruction was g...

Communicative-oriented language teaching methodologies need to have a central role in the current foreign education. In fact, teachers are expected shift away from traditional methods that proven be ineffective for learning. Nowadays, movement, which favors and embraces interaction, communication, negotiation of meaning, is growing education; therefore, pre-service in-service English responsive...

Correlational studies supporting the link between learners’ multiple intelligences and their learning are superseded by interventionist attempts to explore direct applications of Multiple Intelligence (MI) Theory in language teaching and learning. This quasi-experimental study examined the extent to which engaging ELT major university students in writing tasks, compatible to their dominant inte...