Number of Articles: 364
Attitudes towards English Language Norms in the Expanding Circle: Development and Validation of a new Model and Questionnaire
Volume 34, Issue 1 , May 2015, , Pages 51-81
Abstract
This paper describes the development and validation of a new model and questionnaire to measure Iranian English as a foreign language learners’ attitudes towards the use of native ... Read More
Learning styles, Technology Savviness, and Iranian EFL learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge: The Mediating Role of Learners’ Preferences and Needs during Agile App Development
Volume 42, Issue 2 , May 2023, , Pages 51-80
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Juxtaposing the ubiquitous facets of mobile technology as everyware (Greenfield, 2010) and vocabulary as one of the most axial aspects of language learning (Bowles & Cogo, ... Read More
The Introductory Essay: Richard Wright's Covert Challenging of Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism
Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, , Pages 53-72
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Richard Wright’s introductory essay to his collection of short stories Uncle Tom's Children describes hidden forms of resistance against Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism. The essay ... Read More
Acquisition of English Unergative and Unaccusative Structures by Persian EFL Learners
Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, , Pages 53-85
Abstract
The acquisition of argument structures has been studied by a variety of second language acquisition scholars within the past two decades (Atay, 2010; Can, 2009; Chay, 2006, & Kras, ... Read More
A Corpus-based Analysis of Collocational Errors in the Iranian EFL Learners' Oral Production
Volume 31, Issue 4 , March 2013, , Pages 53-78
Abstract
Collocations are one of the areas generally considered problematic for EFL learners. Iranian learners of English like other EFL learners face various problems in producing oral collocations. ... Read More
Postmodern Orientalized Terrorism: Don DeLillo’s The Names
Volume 30, Issue 2 , July 2011, , Pages 57-84
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The terrorism of obscurantism is one of the hallmarks of Don DeLillo’s The Names (1982), distinguishing it as one of the "difficult writings" in his canon. Terrorism, however, ... Read More
Pygmalion in Conversation with Pierre Bourdieu:A Sociological Perspective
Volume 29, Issue 2 , June 2010, , Pages 57-73
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George Bernard Shaw's masterpiece Pygmalion deals with the social function of language and reveals that Linguistic Competence is one of the markers of social status. It presents the ... Read More
TEACHERS AS REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONERS: A SURVEY ON IRANIAN ENGLISH TEACHERS’ REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
Volume 34, Issue 4 , March 2016, , Pages 57-86
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Reflective teaching, which has gained the status of an integral element of teacher pedagogy, is still an elusive concept, probably because it is merely attainable when teachers are ... Read More
The Impact of Task Complexity along Single Task Dimension on EFL Iranian Learners' Written Production: Lexical complexity
Volume 35, Issue 1 , May 2016, , Pages 57-84
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Based on Robinson’s Cognition Hypothesis, this study explored the effects of task complexity on the lexical complexity of Iranian EFL students’ argumentative writing.This ... Read More
Oral Pushed Output: the Route to Long-term Grammatical Accuracy
Volume 36, Issue 1 , May 2017, , Pages 57-84
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This study investigated the impact of oral pushed output on the learning and retention of English perfect tenses. During the study, a pre-test was administered to 22 freshmen majoring ... Read More
Integration of Learning-oriented Assessment into Writing Instruction: A Case of IELTS Writing Preparation Class
Volume 41, Issue 3 , August 2022, , Pages 57-87
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Learning-oriented assessment (LOA) seeks to support instruction by providing information about students’ current learning conditions and their ultimate performance. This study ... Read More
The Adaptation of English Initial Clusters by Persian Learners
Volume 30, Issue 4 , March 2012, , Pages 59-76
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This study presents an overview of the different strategies that Persian learners of English employ to deal with initial clusters. While vowel epenthesis appears to be the most widespread ... Read More
The Effect of Reducing Lexical and Syntactic Complexity of Texts on Reading Comprehension
Volume 36, Issue 3 , October 2017, , Pages 59-83
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The present study investigated the effect of different types of text simplification (i.e., reducing the lexical and syntactic complexity of texts) on reading comprehension of English ... Read More
A Gap Analysis between EFL Teachers' Assessment Literacy in Iranian Public Schools and Their Pre-service Assessment Curriculum
Volume 41, Issue 4 , November 2022, , Pages 59-86
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The design, implementation and outcomes of curriculums must be ongoingly evaluated. Using quantitative gap analysis, this study evaluated Iranian EFL teachers’ satisfaction with ... Read More
DE-MOTIVATORS, BURNOUT AND LANGUAGE ACHIEVEMENT IN AN IRANIAN EFL CONTEXT
Volume 34, Issue 3 , October 2015, , Pages 61-85
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The present study probed 250 English as foreign language (EFL) learners' de-motivation by investigating its role in students' burnout, i.e., a state of physical, emotional, and mental ... Read More
Do We Need Discipline-Specific Academic Word Lists? Linguistics Academic Word List (LAWL)
Volume 35, Issue 3 , October 2016, , Pages 65-90
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This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s ... Read More
Employing Participatory Learning through the Use of Photovoice in Iranian EFL Learning Settings: The Case of Reflective Narratives
Volume 37, Issue 2 , July 2018, , Pages 65-90
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Photovoice is a participatory action research method which aims to enable students to create compelling visual representations and identify the local social issues. This paper ... Read More
Classroom Repair Practices and Reflective Conversations: Longitudinal Interactional Changes
Volume 36, Issue 4 , 2018, , Pages 67-101
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For many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers, working contingently with language learners' problematic learner contributions in classroom interaction remains a challenge. Drawing ... Read More
THE IMPACT OF TEACHING SUMMARIZING ON EFL LEARNERS’ MICROGENETIC DEVELOPMENT OF SUMMARY WRITING
Volume 34, Issue 2 , July 2015, , Pages 69-92
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Summary writing is associated with lots of cognitive and metacognitive complexities that necessitates instruction (Hirvela & Du, 2013). Contrary to majority of studies carried out ... Read More
Lexis-Based Instruction and IELTS Candidates’ Development of L2 Speaking Ability: Use of Formulaicity in Monologic Versus Dialogic Task
Volume 35, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 69-98
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Although lexis research (e.g., Lewis, 1997; Taguchi, 2008) has already evidenced the possibility of teaching formulaic sequences (FS), further research is still needed to examine the ... Read More
Task Condition and EFL Learners’ Individual Differences: The Mediation of Tolerance of Ambiguity and Self-efficacy
Volume 35, Issue 4 , March 2017, , Pages 71-102
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Drawing on Robinson’s cognition hypothesis, the study attempted to examine how task conditions influence EFL learners’ oral performance and whether learners’ individual ... Read More
The Integration of Explicit Instruction and Implicit Meaning-Focused Experience for L2 Vocabulary Development: The Comparative Effect of Time Sequence
Volume 37, Issue 4 , March 2019, , Pages 71-108
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The combination of implicit meaning-focused input and explicit instruction has been suggested by recent research as very effective for learning L2 vocabulary; however, the time sequence ... Read More
Metadiscourse Strategies and Citation Patterns as Resources of Authorial Identity in Research Articles across International/Local Journals and Applied Linguistics Subdisciplines
Volume 33, Issue 1 , May 2014, , Pages 72-49
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The present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns ... Read More
Developing a Model of Teachers’ Possible Selves for the Iranian Context
Volume 37, Issue 1 , May 2018, , Pages 73-96
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This study reports on the development and validation of a questionnaire for exploring the different types of EFL teachers’ possible selves. First, a theoretical framework behind ... Read More
Interactional complexity development, interactional demonstrators and interaction density in collaborative and e-collaborative writing modalities
Volume 36, Issue 2 , July 2017, , Pages 75-102