Following the “spatial turn" of the last 3 decades in humanities and social sciences and the structure of semiotic object, this research studies space as the main semiotic object of Calvino's (1972) Invisible Cities. ...

This study explored the effect of input vs. collaborative output tasks on Iranian EFL learners' grammatical accuracy and their willingness to communicate (WTC). In so doing, the study utilized 3 input (i.e., textual ...

The sociocultural ways of conceptualizing human learning in general education have given rise to various sensitive and time-consuming tools of knowledge production for both the researcher and the researched. The gravity ...

Considerable literature explores the contribution of genre teaching in English academic writing. The role of this approach in developing academic writing of Iranian EFL students, however, has been underresearched. This ...

This study investigated the relationship between Iranian EFL learners' use of strategies in producing English collocations and their proficiency level. Participants were 115 undergraduate university students at 3 proficiency ...

This study examined the effects of cognitive task complexity increase on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) as well as the temporal distribution of the cognitive and metacognitive processes involved in computer-mediated ...

This study focused on the effect of transcribing task, as a noticing activity, on EFL learners' grammatical accuracy. For 20 sessions, oral discussion tasks were assigned to 2 intermediate adult EFL classrooms, with 1 class ...

Self-assessment and task-based assessment have recently attracted attention in language learning and testing contexts worldwide; however, little research has been carried out to document the link between these notions. The ...

Translation studies (TS), as a young (inter)discipline, has partly relied on metadiscussions, critical assessments of its literature, and compilation of bibliographies to deal with certain problems of its youth, such as ...