Number of Articles: 366
Comparison of the effects of Written Corrective Feedback and Task-complexity Manipulation on the Grammatical Accuracy of EFL Learners’ Writing
Volume 37, Issue 4 , March 2019, , Pages 167-194
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This study compared the effects of teacher-provided written corrective feedback and manipulation of resource-directing dimensions of task cognitive-complexity along +/- Here and Now ... Read MoreIranian EFL Teachers’ Sense-Making of Policy Reforms: The Case of the New Communicative-Based Curriculum
Volume 37, Issue 2 , July 2018, , Pages 169-193
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By the end of the 2020s, a change involving the substitution of the Communicative Approach to English teaching for the Structural one has been fully operative in the Iranian secondary ... Read MoreThe Structural Invariance of a Model of Washback to Test Takers’ Perceptions and Preparation: The Moderating Role of Institutions
Volume 36, Issue 4 , 2018, , Pages 171-201
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Test washback is held to be complicated and multifaceted in that a host of cultural, social, individual, test, and institutional factors are involved in shaping it. Thus far, the majority ... Read MoreIntegrating Portfolio-Assessment into the Writing Process: Does it Affect a Significant Change in Iranian EFL Undergraduates’ Writing Achievement? A Mixed-Methods Study
Volume 38, Issue 2 , July 2019, , Pages 171-195
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The paradigm shift from testing the outcome to assessing the learning of process shines a light on the alternative assessment approaches, among which portfolio-assessment has sparked ... Read MoreReview of Linguistic Inequality and Injustice in Academic Writing
Volume 41, Issue 4 , November 2022, , Pages 173-188
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This review article examines the underpinning of the little-researched, influential elements that create linguistic injustice in the specific contexts of linguistic imperialism through ... Read MorePeer/Teacher Technology-Enhanced Scaffolding through Process Approach and Iranian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge: A Probe into Self-regulation
Volume 38, Issue 3 , October 2019, , Pages 189-223
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The present study aimed at investigating the effect of peer and teacher scaffolding through a process approach in a technology-enhanced environment on vocabulary learning among high ... Read MoreFeatures of Language Assessment Literacy in Iranian English Language Teachers' Perceptions and Practices
Volume 38, Issue 1 , May 2019, , Pages 191-223
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Language assessment literacy (LAL), mainly defined as knowledge and skills of language assessment, in the last two decades, has started to receive the attention it deserves. As one ... Read MoreThe Effect of Online Learning Tools on L2 Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Learning
Volume 37, Issue 3 , October 2018, , Pages 211-238
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of various online techniques (word reference, media, and vocabulary games) on reading comprehension as well as vocabulary comprehension ... Read MoreA Historical and Comparative Study of the Ergative Verb Structure in Ardakani, Dashti, Dashtaki, Yazdi Jewish and Lari Dialects
Volume 28, Issue 1 , July 2009, , Pages 21-40
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Introduction A dialect is a variety of a language used by group of people whose lexicon, syntax, phonetics and phonology are different from those ... Read MoreAcoustic Analysis of Persian EFL Learners' Pronunciation of English Vowels
Volume 33, Issue 3 , October 2014, , Pages 135-153
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This paper reports the results of an experimental study on non-native production of English vowels. Two groups of Persian EFL learners varying in language proficiency were tested on ... Read MoreThe Role of Conceptualizable Agent in Overpassivization of English Unaccusatives in Iranian English Majors
Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, , Pages 141-162
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The present study is an attempt to explore the effect of one of the pragmatic elements of discourse (namely the conceptualizable agent) on overpassivization of English unaccusative ... Read MoreThe Effect of the Translator's Gender Ideology on Translating Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Volume 30, Issue 3 , October 2011, , Pages 143-158
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The present study examines the effect of gender ideology of the translators on two Persian translations of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The findings reveal that although ... Read MoreThe Involvement Load Hypothesis and Vocabulary Learning: The Effect of Task Types and Involvement Index on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition
Volume 29, Issue 1 , March 2010, , Pages 145-163
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This study builds on Laufer and Hulstijn’s (2001) motivational-cognitive construct of task-induced involvement in learning vocabulary and addresses itself to its strong claim ... Read MoreTHE IMPACT OF LINGUISTIC AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE READING PERFORMANCE OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS
Volume 30, Issue 1 , April 2011, , Pages 151-171
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Following innovations in intelligence and its radical changes from a unitary concept (IQ) to a multi-dimensional conceptualization, i.e. multiple intelligences and the need to design ... Read MoreThe Construct of Interlanguage Pragmatic Learning Strategies: Investigating Preferences of High vs. Low Pragmatic Performers
Volume 33, Issue 4 , March 2015, , Pages 153-180
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Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) has witnessed a growing body of research in the past two decades. One of the under-explored domains of L2 pragmatics is the role of learning strategies ... Read MoreEffect of Gender – Oriented Content Familiarity and Test Type on Reading Comprehension
Volume 30, Issue 2 , July 2011, , Pages 155-178
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One important issue that any material or test designer should bear in mind is to be careful about developing teaching and testing reading materials which would not be to the benefit ... Read MoreThe Impact of Explicit Instruction of Metadiscourse Markers on EFL Learners' Writing Performance
Volume 29, Issue 2 , June 2010, , Pages 155-174
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The current study is an attempt to investigate the impact of explicit instruction of metadiscourse markers on advanced, intermediate, and elementary EFL learners’ writing performance. ... Read MoreThe Absence of ‘Paucity’ & ‘Momentariness’: Two New Components of Magical Realism in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum
Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, , Pages 155-169
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This article presents the question whether it is correct to classify Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum as a work of magical realism. A brief scrutiny of the elements of magical ... Read MoreOn the Representation of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in Interchange Coursebooks
Volume 31, Issue 1 , May 2012, , Pages 171-204
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This study intends to evaluate Interchange series (2005), which are still fundamental coursebooks in the EFL curriculum settings, in terms of learning objectives in Bloom’s Revised ... Read MoreAn Online Portfolio Assessment and Perception Study of Iranian High School Students’ English Writing Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Volume 40, Issue 3 , August 2021, , Pages 197-231
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With the abrupt emergence and dissemination of the COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional face-to-face classes were replaced by online classes in Iran. This quick shift has put great demands ... Read MoreSocio-cultural Patterns in Iranian High School Textbooks from the View point of Motivation for Research
Volume 28, Issue 1 , July 2009, , Pages 41-69
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Introduction One very important aspect of any textbook is its content in terms of the motivation it creates in the readers. This is specifically true in EFL textbooks where the learners ... Read MoreEngaging Strategies in Adam Bede
Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, , Pages 163-188
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One of the narrative strategies employed in different ways by men and women writers is the presentation of narrator. The significance of narrator is so much that it differentiates between ... Read MoreOn Teaching to Diversity: Investigating the Effectiveness of MI-Inspired Instruction in an EFL Context
Volume 29, Issue 1 , March 2010, , Pages 165-183
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This study reports an experiment conducted to investigate the effectiveness of implementing MI-inspired instruction in an EFL context. To this end, a group of ten intermediate female ... Read MoreIslam and Modernity: A Study of John Updike's Terrorist (2006)
Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, , Pages 171-186
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The images of Muslims in media, literature and politics have been mostly black and white portrayals of a people alien to modernity, technology, civilization and progress. Since the ... Read MoreRhetorical Structure Analysis of EFLs’ Written Narratives of a Picture Story
Volume 30, Issue 2 , July 2011, , Pages 179-208