toefl ibt has turned recently heads to the impacts language tests can have on language learning. since error analysis-based instruction has gained a new life with the advent of the computer analysis of the learner’s language, the researchers of this study embarked on examining a sample of integrated and independent writing tasks of 45 iranian toefl ibt candidates in order to identify and classi...

this study investigated the impact of using the technique of self-monitoring on non-academic efl learners’ composition writing. fifty female students studying english at navid english institute in shiraz, iran were chosen based on the results of a proficiency test. they were all 16-20 years old and were intermediate learners of english who were divided into two control and experimental groups a...

The study is a follow up to a study that was previously conducted by the authors (Briggs, Ololube, & Kpolovie, 2014) on “Managing Children Learning: Support Based Screening Procedure for Motor, Cognition and Language Communication in Early Childhood Education”. Limited data are available that describe the relative impact of diligence and intelligence in children’s reading and writing skills in ...

Integration of trade-related writing in upper secondary vocational training – This article presents a critical review academic literature on the integration into technical and education (TVET) programmes that may be attended by adults who do not have diploma or difficulties with reading writing. It is guided two fundamental points: one hand, authors take account literacy issues specific to sub-...

Reading and writing of data is fundamental in computing, as is its control. However control of reading and writing has traditionally only been available at the level of le systems, and not programming language data structures. In this paper a simple imperative language is described which uses type modes to control reading and writing of data. A type may be labelled read-write or read-only; a re...

the research was aimed at finding out the effects of the implementation of writing feedback techniques and students’ writing anxiety on students’ writing ablity. experimental method of 3x2 factorial design was employed in the research. there were three experimental groups of students who were taught by using teacher feedback, peer feedback and the combination of peer and teacher feedback writin...

The difficulty faced (by many) in reading a large fraction of the scientific literature is not, as is generally perceived, due to the complexity of scientific concepts, but is due to these difficult-to-read documents being poorly written. Scientific documents, however, need not be difficult to read, or even to write. In the rest of this article, we attempt to provide some insight into what goes...

abstract in iran, most english teachers’ method of teaching writing is merely to have students do some writing exercises or simply to give them writing tests without any instruction, but writing is not an easy task for students, and teachers should be able to do more to facilitate their students’ writing. one of the ways to aid writing is dynamic assessment via graduated prompt. the graduated p...