Robots acquire behaviors to perform tasks, in general by being programmed, or occasionally by being instructed through demonstrations. In this thesis, we address the challenge of providing task behaviors to a robot through language instructions and interactions. We consider robots equipped with built-in motion and perception primitives with their functionality known to the user. We contribute I...

Task-based instruction is arguably associated with fostering fluent L2 speech distant from native-like accuracy. Of several methodological options recommended for accounting for accuracy problems of meaning-first approaches to language teaching, planning time has been explored in this study. Three groups of English majors watched a cartoon and narrated their accounts of watching under no-planni...

the purpose of this research was to analyze efl writing tasks in two of the most popular english for speakers of other languages (esol) exam preparation courses in iran, namely ielts and toefl. having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate efl writing tasks in 3 ielts and 3...

In this work, we propose an interactive general instruction framework SketchMeHow to guidance the common users complete daily tasks in real-time. contrast conventional augmented reality-based systems, proposed utilizes user sketches as system inputs acquire users’ production intentions from drawing interfaces. Given sketches, designated task can be analyzed based on subtask division and spatial...

This study investigated the relationship between task-based teacher training and novice English language teachers’ cognitions implementations of tasks in Honduran bilingual schools. After participating a four-week program on teaching, teachers with little or no prior teaching experience designed lessons were video-recorded implementing those learners ages 5 to 12. Following classroom observatio...

In this study, we explore the automaticity of encoding for different facial characteristics and ask whether it is influenced by face familiarity. We used a matching task in which participants had to report whether the gender, identity, race, or expression of two briefly presented faces was the same or different. The task was made challenging by allowing nonrelevant dimensions to vary across tri...

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