Research Paper
The effects of Concept Mapping Strategy and Aural Vs. Written Prompts on Writing Test Performance Under Different Planning Conditions
The effects of Concept Mapping Strategy and Aural Vs. Written Prompts on Writing Test Performance Under Different Planning Conditions

Najmeh Farshi; Mansoor Tavakoli

Volume 33, Issue 2 , July 2014, Pages 55-80

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2014.2045

Abstract
  This study examined the effects of aural and written prompts under two planning conditions (i.e. pre-task planning and no planning) on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of test takers' ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Impact of Metalinguistic English Vocabulary Knowledge and Lexical Inferencing on EFL Learners’ Lexical Knowledge Considering the Cross-Linguistic Issue of L1 Lexicalization
The Impact of Metalinguistic English Vocabulary Knowledge and Lexical Inferencing on EFL Learners’ Lexical Knowledge Considering the Cross-Linguistic Issue of L1 Lexicalization

nassim Golaghaei; Mortaza Yamini

Volume 33, Issue 2 , July 2014, Pages 27-53

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2014.2403

Abstract
  The present study endeavors to unravel the enigma of the psycholinguistic mechanisms underpinning bilingual mental lexicon by analyzing the issue of L1 lexicalization as a construct ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Pragmatic Study of Requestive Speech Act by Iranian EFL Learners and Canadian Native Speakers in Hotels
A Pragmatic Study of Requestive Speech Act by Iranian EFL Learners and Canadian Native Speakers in Hotels

Mahmood Hashemian

Volume 33, Issue 2 , July 2014, Pages 1-25

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2014.2043

Abstract
  This study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by Iranian nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English and Canadian native speakers (NSs) of English to find out ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Relationship between English and Persian Phonological Awareness, Rapid Autamatized Naming and Students’ Reading Achievement in Partial Immersion and Non-Immersion Programs
The Relationship between English and Persian Phonological Awareness, Rapid Autamatized Naming and Students’ Reading Achievement in Partial Immersion and Non-Immersion Programs

Ali Kazemi

Volume 33, Issue 2 , July 2014, Pages 27-53

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2014.2044

Abstract
  The cognitive predictors (i.e.,Phonological Awareness, and Rapid Automatized Naming) underlying reading achievement have not been researched in Iranian partial English immersion and ...  Read More
Research Paper
Cognitive Task Complexity and Iranian EFL Learners’ Written Linguistic Performance across Writing Proficiency Levels
Cognitive Task Complexity and Iranian EFL Learners’ Written Linguistic Performance across Writing Proficiency Levels

Elaheh Sotoudehnama; Mahsa Farahanynia

Volume 33, Issue 2 , July 2014, Pages 107-128

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2014.2333

Abstract
  Recently tasks, as the basic units of syllabi, and the cognitive complexity, as the criterion for sequencing them, have caught many second language researchers’ attention. This ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Effect of Variations in Integrated Writing Tasks and Proficiency Level on Features of Written Discourse Generated by Iranian EFL Learners
The Effect of Variations in Integrated Writing Tasks and Proficiency Level on Features of Written Discourse Generated by Iranian EFL Learners

Hassan Soleimani; Maryam Mahdavipour

Volume 33, Issue 2 , July 2014, Pages 129-159

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2014.2060

Abstract
  In recent years, a number of large-scale writing assessments (e.g., TOEFL iBT) have employed integrated writing tests to measure test takers’ academic writing ability. Using a ...  Read More