New York Baseball Academy, Old Westbury A four-day program of focused instruction here for youngsters ages 7 to 12 includes hitting and position workshops and speed development drills.
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Focused instruction on implicature may be needed to facilitate the development of pragmatic comprehension ability.
Nevertheless, trainees rarely receive any focused instruction on their application and use.
First, regarding whether focused instruction on implicature comprehension is needed, the results showed that the advanced learners (i.e., CSL-3&4) may not necessarily need focused instruction due to their good performance.
These programs tried to improve the quality of teaching by providing more focused instruction and a more effective classroom management.
One practical use of the results of this study would be to inform decisions on curriculum development for the Chinese program where the examinees came from, because implicature was not a unit of focused instruction in the program.
More importantly, through focused instruction, language learners will probably get the chance to rehearse and internalize this language phenomenon and ultimately utilize it in their language production (Wood, 2009).
There is sufficient evidence to support the adequacy of brief focused instruction of physicians in focused cardiac ultrasound and basic lung ultrasound [7, 10, 13], however, ours is the first study to demonstrate this type of training intervention in a resource-limited setting.
